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Emily Dickinson

 


Daguerreotype of William Austin Dickinson





















    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.

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