Poems: Second Series (Dickinson)/I'm nobody! Who are you?

by Emily Dickinson

I.

LIFE.

POEMS.

I.

I'M nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us—don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!