Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Two: Nature
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| THE SUN just touched the morning; | |
| The morning, happy thing, | |
| Supposed that he had come to dwell, | |
| And life would be all spring. | |
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| She felt herself supremer,— | 5 |
| A raised, ethereal thing; | |
| Henceforth for her what holiday! | |
| Meanwhile, her wheeling king | |
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| Trailed slow along the orchards | |
| His haughty, spangled hems, | 10 |
| Leaving a new necessity,— | |
| The want of diadems! | |
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| The morning fluttered, staggered, | |
| Felt feebly for her crown,— | |
| Her unanointed forehead | 15 |
| Henceforth her only one. | |
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