Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Two: Nature
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| NATURE, the gentlest mother, | |
| Impatient of no child, | |
| The feeblest or the waywardest,— | |
| Her admonition mild | |
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| In forest and the hill | 5 |
| By traveller is heard, | |
| Restraining rampant squirrel | |
| Or too impetuous bird. | |
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| How fair her conversation, | |
| A summer afternoon,— | 10 |
| Her household, her assembly; | |
| And when the sun goes down | |
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| Her voice among the aisles | |
| Incites the timid prayer | |
| Of the minutest cricket, | 15 |
| The most unworthy flower. | |
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| When all the children sleep | |
| She turns as long away | |
| As will suffice to light her lamps; | |
| Then, bending from the sky, | 20 |
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| With infinite affection | |
| And infiniter care, | |
| Her golden finger on her lip, | |
| Wills silence everywhere. | |
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