Nature
Within my reach
Nature
Within my reach!
I could have touched!
I might have chanced that way!
Soft sauntered through the village,
Sauntered as soft away!
So unsuspected violets
Within the fields lie low,
Too late for striving fingers
That passed, an hour ago.
Cite this poem
MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “Within my reach.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/6/.
Chicago
Dickinson, Emily. “Within my reach.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/6/.
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