Nature
And this of all my hopes—
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
Nature
And this of all my hopes—
This is the silent end.
Bountiful colored my morning rose,
Early and sere its end.
Never bud from a stem
Stepped with so gay a foot,
Never a worm so confident
Bored at so brave a root.
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Dickinson, Emily. “And this of all my hopes—.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/466/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “And this of all my hopes—.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/466/.
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