The Mind

The Hills erect their purple heads

by Emily Dickinson 1830–1886

From The Single Hound (1914)

The Mind

The Hills erect their purple heads,
The Rivers lean to see—
Yet Man has not, of all the throng,
A curiosity.

MLA

Dickinson, Emily. “The Hills erect their purple heads.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/724/.

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