
Her brother Austin Dickenson. Dagguerotype, ca. 1850
from Poems (Second Series) 1891.
XV.
THE HUMMING-BIRD
AROUTE of evanescence
With a revolving wheel;
A resonance of emerald,
A rush of cochineal;
And every blossom on the bush
Adjusts its tumbled head,—
The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy morning's ride.