Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Two: Nature
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| OF bronze and blaze | |
| The north, to-night! | |
| So adequate its forms, | |
| So preconcerted with itself, | |
| So distant to alarms,— | 5 |
| An unconcern so sovereign | |
| To universe, or me, | |
| It paints my simple spirit | |
| With tints of majesty, | |
| Till I take vaster attitudes, | 10 |
| And strut upon my stem, | |
| Disdaining men and oxygen, | |
| For arrogance of them. | |
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| My splendors are menagerie; | |
| But their competeless show | 15 |
| Will entertain the centuries | |
| When I am, long ago, | |
| An island in dishonored grass, | |
| Whom none but daisies know. | |
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