Nature poems
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Endanger it, and the Demand
© Emily Dickinson
Endanger it, and the Demand
Of tickets for a sigh
Amazes the Humility
Of Credibility --
Each Life Converges to some Centre --
© Emily Dickinson
Each Life Converges to some Centre --
Expressed -- or still --
Exists in every Human Nature
A Goal --
Declaiming Waters none may dread --
© Emily Dickinson
Declaiming Waters none may dread --
But Waters that are still
Are so for that most fatal cause
In Nature -- they are full --
Civilization -- spurns -- the Leopard!
© Emily Dickinson
Pity -- the Pard -- that left her Asia --
Memories -- of Palm --
Cannot be stifled -- with Narcotic --
Nor suppressed -- with Balm --
Bloom -- is Result -- to meet a Flower
© Emily Dickinson
Bloom -- is Result -- to meet a Flower
And casually glance
Would scarcely cause one to suspect
The minor Circumstance
Betrothed to Righteousness might be
© Emily Dickinson
Betrothed to Righteousness might be
An Ecstasy discreet
But Nature relishes the Pinks
Which she was taught to eat --
Besides this May
© Emily Dickinson
Besides this May
We know
There is Another --
How fair
Our Speculations of the Foreigner!
As willing lid o'er weary eye
© Emily Dickinson
As willing lid o'er weary eye
The Evening on the Day leans
Till of all our nature's House
Remains but Balcony
As old as Woe --
© Emily Dickinson
As old as Woe --
How old is that?
Some eighteen thousand years --
As old as Bliss
How old is that
They are of equal years
All forgot for recollecting
© Emily Dickinson
All forgot for recollecting
Just a paltry One --
All forsook, for just a Stranger's
New Accompanying --
After the Sun comes out
© Emily Dickinson
After the Sun comes out
How it alters the World --
Waggons like messengers hurry about
Yesterday is old --
A Tongue -- to tell Him I am true!
© Emily Dickinson
A Tongue -- to tell Him I am true!
Its fee -- to be of Gold --
Had Nature -- in Her monstrous House
A single Ragged Child --
A still -- Volcano -- Life --
© Emily Dickinson
A still -- Volcano -- Life --
That flickered in the night --
When it was dark enough to do
Without erasing sight --
A Sparrow took a Slice of Twig
© Emily Dickinson
A Sparrow took a Slice of Twig
And thought it very nice
I think, because his empty Plate
Was handed Nature twice --
A Moth the hue of this
© Emily Dickinson
A Moth the hue of this
Haunts Candles in Brazil.
Nature's Experience would make
Our Reddest Second pale.
A Man may make a Remark --
© Emily Dickinson
A Man may make a Remark --
In itself -- a quiet thing
That may furnish the Fuse unto a Spark
In dormant nature -- lain --
A Counterfeit -- a Plated Person --
© Emily Dickinson
A Counterfeit -- a Plated Person --
I would not be --
Whatever strata of Iniquity
My Nature underlie --
"Nature" is what we see --
© Emily Dickinson
"Nature" is what we see --
The Hill -- the Afternoon --
Squirrel -- Eclipse -- the Bumble bee --
Nay -- Nature is Heaven --
"Go tell it" -- What a Message --
© Emily Dickinson
"Go tell it" -- What a Message --
To whom -- is specified --
Not murmur -- not endearment --
But simply -- we -- obeyed --
To undertake is to achieve
© Emily Dickinson
To undertake is to achieve
Be Undertaking blent
With fortitude of obstacle
And toward encouragement
