Love

Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower

by Emily Dickinson 1830–1886

Love

Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower?
But I could never sell.
If you would like to borrow
Until the daffodil

Unties her yellow bonnet
Beneath the village door,
Until the bees, from clover rows
Their hock and sherry draw,

Why, I will lend until just then,
But not an hour more!

MLA

Dickinson, Emily. “Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/47/.

Chicago

Dickinson, Emily. “Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/47/.

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