The Mind
The Winds drew off like hungry dogs
From The Single Hound (1914)
The Mind
The Winds drew off
Like hungry dogs
Defeated of a bone.
Through fissures in
Volcanic cloud
The yellow lightning shown.
The trees held up
Their mangled limbs
Like animals in pain,
When Nature falls
Upon herself,
Beware an Austrian!
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MLA
Dickinson, Emily. “The Winds drew off like hungry dogs.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/732/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “The Winds drew off like hungry dogs.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/732/.
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