Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Two: Nature
LXII
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| A DROP fell on the apple tree | |
| Another on the roof; | |
| A half a dozen kissed the eaves, | |
| And made the gables laugh. | |
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| A few went out to help the brook, | 5 |
| That went to help the sea. | |
| Myself conjectured, Were they pearls, | |
| What necklaces could be! | |
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| The dust replaced in hoisted roads, | |
| The birds jocoser sung; | 10 |
| The sunshine threw his hat away, | |
| The orchards spangles hung. | |
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| The breezes brought dejected lutes, | |
| And bathed them in the glee; | |
| The East put out a single flag, | 15 |
| And signed the fête away. | |
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