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poem · Grades 5-12

I'm Nobody! Who are you?

Emily Dickinson

Grades
Grades 5-12
Kind
poem
Length
46 words, about 1 min
From
United States
Text
Original text

I'm Nobody! Who are you?

Emily Dickinson

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!

Source and license

Public domain in the United States (first published 1890). Original source.