Hope is a strange invention --
A Patent of the Heart --
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out --
Of this electric Adjunct
Not anything is known
But its unique momentum
Embellish all we own --
Classic poem
Hope is a strange invention --
Public domain/Source
About this poem
- First line
- Hope is a strange invention --
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Themes
- love, hope
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