I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the Wren; and my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur – and my eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass that the Guest leaves.
Source:Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (July 1862); in The Letters of Emily Dickinson (ed. Belknap Press, 1958), Volume II, Letter 268, Page 411
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