Poems: Second Series (Dickinson)/Undue significance a starving man attaches

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Poems: Second Series (1891)
by Emily Dickinson
Undue significance a starving man attaches
4405102Poems: Second Series — Undue significance a starving man attaches1891Emily Dickinson

XLV.


UNDUE significance a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.

Partaken, it relieves indeed, but proves us
That spices fly
In the receipt. It was the distance
Was savory.