Love
Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower
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!
Cite this poem
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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