Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Two: Nature
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| BRING me the sunset in a cup, | |
| Reckon the morning’s flagons up, | |
| And say how many dew; | |
| Tell me how far the morning leaps, | |
| Tell me what time the weaver sleeps | 5 |
| Who spun the breadths of blue! | |
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| Write me how many notes there be | |
| In the new robin’s ecstasy | |
| Among astonished boughs; | |
| How many trips the tortoise makes, | 10 |
| How many cups the bee partakes,— | |
| The debauchee of dews! | |
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| Also, who laid the rainbow’s piers, | |
| Also, who leads the docile spheres | |
| By withes of supple blue? | 15 |
| Whose fingers string the stalactite, | |
| Who counts the wampum of the night, | |
| To see that none is due? | |
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| Who built this little Alban house | |
| And shut the windows down so close | 20 |
| My spirit cannot see? | |
| Who ’ll let me out some gala day, | |
| With implements to fly away, | |
| Passing pomposity? | |
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