Emily Dickinson Quotes


A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period -
When March is scarcely here
A Color stands abroad
On Solitary Fields
That Science cannot overtake
But Human Nature feels.

It waits upon the Lawn,
It shows the furthest Tree
Upon the furthest Slope you know
It almost speaks to you.

Then as Horizons step
Or Noons report away
Without the Formula of sound
It passes and we stay -

A quality of loss
Affecting our Content
As Trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a Sacrament.


Citations

Dickinson, Emily. The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1955, p. 615.

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Emily Dickinson
  • Born: December 10, 1830
  • Died: May 15, 1886
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Little known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.