Emily Dickinson (183086). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Two: Nature
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| BLAZING in gold and quenching in purple, | |
| Leaping like leopards to the sky, | |
| Then at the feet of the old horizon | |
| Laying her spotted face, to die; | |
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| Stooping as low as the kitchen window, | 5 |
| Touching the roof and tinting the barn, | |
| Kissing her bonnet to the meadow, | |
| And the juggler of day is gone! | |
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