I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, ' Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new, -- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away. Emily Dickinson
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I was so hungry all my life,My noon had come to dine, I was trembling to pick up the silver bowl of wine. It had been so different from what I had always known,I looked in the window of the rich where they dined at their tables. I saw bread on the table, but it was not bread that had been made by birds on a hilltop. The bread was so strange to me,I did not know how to eat it.

My hunger hurt me because it was so new,And myself felt ill and strange as I sat nibbling berries from a mountain bush. I was not hungry; so I foundThat hunger is something that people outside windows must feel when they enter.

Source: Im Nobody! Who Are You?

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