Nature
You cannot put a fire out
Nature
You cannot put a fire out;
A thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a fan
Upon the slowest night.
You cannot fold a flood
And put it in a drawer, --
Because the winds would find it out,
And tell your cedar floor.
Cite this poem
MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “You cannot put a fire out.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/330/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “You cannot put a fire out.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/330/.
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