The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
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I cannot dance opon my Toes -No Man instructed me - But oftentimes, among my mind, A Glee possesseth me, That had I Ballet Knowledge -Would put itself abroad In Pirouette to blanch a Troupe - Or lay a Prima, mad, And though I had no Gown of Gauze - No Ringlet, to my Hair,Nor hopped for Audiences - like Birds - One Claw opon the air - Nor tossed my shape in Eider Balls, Nor rolled on wheels of snowTill I was out of sight, in sound,The House encore me so - Nor any know I know the Art I mention - easy - Here - Nor any Placard boast me - It's full as Opera -