Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Two: Nature
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| SOME rainbow coming from the fair! | |
| Some vision of the World Cashmere | |
| I confidently see! | |
| Or else a peacock’s purple train, | |
| Feather by feather, on the plain | 5 |
| Fritters itself away! | |
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| The dreamy butterflies bestir, | |
| Lethargic pools resume the whir | |
| Of last year’s sundered tune. | |
| From some old fortress on the sun | 10 |
| Baronial bees march, one by one, | |
| In murmuring platoon! | |
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| The robins stand as thick to-day | |
| As flakes of snow stood yesterday, | |
| On fence and roof and twig. | 15 |
| The orchis binds her feather on | |
| For her old lover, Don the Sun, | |
| Revisiting the bog! | |
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| Without commander, countless, still, | |
| The regiment of wood and hill | 20 |
| In bright detachment stand. | |
| Behold! Whose multitudes are these? | |
| The children of whose turbaned seas, | |
| Or what Circassian land? | |
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