Verse > Emily Dickinson > Complete Poems > V. The Single Hound > 19. “So gay a flower bereaved the mind”
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Emily Dickinson (1830–86).  Complete Poems.  1924.

Part Five: The Single Hound

XIX

SO gay a flower bereaved the mind
As if it were a woe,
Is Beauty an affliction, then?
Tradition ought to know.

CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

  PREVIOUS NEXT  
 
Google
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Welcome · Advertising · Terms of Use · © 2009 Bartleby.com