The Mind
Revolution is the pod
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
The Mind
Revolution is the pod
Systems rattle from;
When the winds of
Will are stirred,
Excellent is bloom.
But except its russet
Base
Every summer be
The entomber of itself;
So of Liberty.
Left inactive on the
Stalk,
All its purple fled,
Revolution shakes it
For
Test if it be dead.
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “Revolution is the pod.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/567/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “Revolution is the pod.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/567/.
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