I asked no other thing.
No other was denied.
I offered Being for it;
The mighty merchant smiled.
Brazil? He twirled a button,
Without a glance my way:
“But, madam, is there nothing else
That we can show to-day?”
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Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet, widely regarded as one of the most original voices in English-language literature, known for her compressed, slant-rhymed verse and fascination with death, nature, and the inner life. "I Asked No Other Thing" employs her characteristic metaphor of commerce to explore spiritual longing, reducing the grand exchange of a life's worth to a shopkeeper's dismissive shrug.
