"Speech" - is a prank of Parliament by Emily Dickinson

"Speech" - is a prank of Parliament - 

"Tears" - is a trick of the nerve - 

But the Heart with the heaviest freight on - 

Doesn't - always - move-

They Shut Me Up in Prose - Emily Dickinson

They shut me up in Prose --

As when a little Girl

They put me in the Closet --

Because they liked me "still" --

Still! Could themself have peeped --

And seen my Brain -- go round --

They might as wise have lodged a Bird

For Treason -- in the Pound --

Himself has but to will

And easy as a Star

Abolish his Captivity --

And laugh -- No more have I --