I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson · 1891
Public domain
Published in 1891. The text is free of copyright in the United States. This copy is the poem, without the Project Gutenberg header.
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!