Allan Ramsey's "Anne Bayne, Mrs Allan Ramsay, d. 1743. Wife of the artist Allan Ramsay"

Emily Dickinson

I’m wife – Emily Dickinson

Allan Ramsey's "Anne Bayne, Mrs Allan Ramsay, d. 1743. Wife of the artist Allan Ramsay" — Allan Ramsey’s “Anne Bayne, Mrs Allan Ramsay, d. 1743. Wife of the artist Allan Ramsay”

I’m wife; I ’ve finished that,
That other state;
I ’m Czar, I ’m woman now:
It ’s safer so.

How odd the girl’s life looks
Behind this soft eclipse!
I think that earth seems so
To those in heaven now.

This being comfort, then
That other kind was pain;
But why compare?
I ’m wife! stop there!

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