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Dickinson, Emily The heart asks pleasure first

	On-Line Text
Genre	Poem
Keywords	Disease and Health, Euthanasia, Pain, Suffering, Suicide
Summary	The narrator delineates the needs of a human heart and soul: "pleasure," relief of pain, and finally, "the liberty to die."
Source	Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Publisher	Avenal
Edition	1982
Editors	Mabel Loomis Todd & T. W. Higginson
Place Published	New York
Miscellaneous	First published: 1890
Annotated by	Chen, Irene and Aull, Felice
Date of Entry	08/01/93
Last Revised	05/07/01