Love

I'm the little "Hearts' Ease!"

by Emily Dickinson 1830–1886

From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)

Love

I'm the little "Hearts' Ease!"
I don't care for pouting skies!
If the butterfly delay
Can I therefore stay away?

If the coward bumblebee
In his chimney-corner stay,
I must resoluter be;
Who'll apologize for me?

Dear old-fashioned little flower,
Eden is old-fashioned too!
Birds are antiquated fellows,
Heaven does not change her blue—
Nor may you, the little "Hearts' Ease",
Ever be induced to do.

MLA

Dickinson, Emily. “I'm the little "Hearts' Ease!".” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/500/.

Chicago

Dickinson, Emily. “I'm the little "Hearts' Ease!".” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/500/.

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