Emily Dickinson

I fear a man of scanty speech,
I fear a silent man,
Haranguer I can overtake
Or babbler entertain---

But he who waiteth
While the rest
Expend their inmost pound,
Of this Man I am wary---
I fear that He is Grand.

--From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson edited by her niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi, and Alfred Leete Hampson. LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
BOSTON 1929.