Nature

The wind tapped like a tired man

by Emily Dickinson 1830–1886

Nature

The wind tapped like a tired man,
And like a host, "Come in,"
I boldly answered; entered then
My residence within

A rapid, footless guest,
To offer whom a chair
Were as impossible as hand
A sofa to the air.

No bone had he to bind him,
His speech was like the push
Of numerous humming-birds at once
From a superior bush.

His countenance a billow,
His fingers, if he pass,
Let go a music, as of tunes
Blown tremulous in glass.

He visited, still flitting;
Then, like a timid man,
Again he tapped -- 't was flurriedly --
And I became alone.

MLA

Dickinson, Emily. “The wind tapped like a tired man.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/217/.

Chicago

Dickinson, Emily. “The wind tapped like a tired man.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/217/.

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