Hope well defined

Hope

defined in a poem by Emily Dickinson

 

Part One: Life 

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HOPE is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all, 

   

And sweetest in the gale is heard; 

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

 

I ’ve heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

From Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.