Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Two: Nature
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| AN altered look about the hills; | |
| A Tyrian light the village fills; | |
| A wider sunrise in the dawn; | |
| A deeper twilight on the lawn; | |
| A print of a vermilion foot; | 5 |
| A purple finger on the slope; | |
| A flippant fly upon the pane; | |
| A spider at his trade again; | |
| An added strut in chanticleer; | |
| A flower expected everywhere; | 10 |
| An axe shrill singing in the woods; | |
| Fern-odors on untravelled roads,— | |
| All this, and more I cannot tell, | |
| A furtive look you know as well, | |
| And Nicodemus’ mystery | 15 |
| Receives its annual reply. | |
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