Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Two: Nature
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| A LADY red upon the hill | |
| Her annual secret keeps; | |
| A lady white within the field | |
| In placid lily sleeps! | |
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| The tidy breezes with their brooms | 5 |
| Sweep vale, and hill, and tree! | |
| Prithee, my pretty housewives! | |
| Who may expected he? | |
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| The neighbors do not yet suspect! | |
| The woods exchange a smile— | 10 |
| Orchard, and buttercup, and bird— | |
| In such a little while! | |
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| And yet how still the landscape stands, | |
| How nonchalant the wood, | |
| As if the resurrection | 15 |
| Were nothing very odd! | |
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