Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Two: Nature
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| NO brigadier throughout the year | |
| So civic as the Jay. | |
| A neighbor and a warrior too, | |
| With shrill felicity | |
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| Pursuing winds that censure us | 5 |
| A February day, | |
| The brother of the universe | |
| Was never blown away. | |
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| The snow and he are intimate; | |
| I ’ve often seen them play | 10 |
| When heaven looked upon us all | |
| With such severity, | |
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| I felt apology were due | |
| To an insulted sky, | |
| Whose pompous frown was nutriment | 15 |
| To their temerity. | |
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| The pillow of this daring head | |
| Is pungent evergreens; | |
| His larder—terse and militant— | |
| Unknown, refreshing things; | 20 |
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| His character a tonic, | |
| His future a dispute; | |
| Unfair an immortality | |
| That leaves this neighbor out. | |
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