Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]

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Title
Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
Author
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Editor
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911, Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932
Publication
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company
1910
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"Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAE0074.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.

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I.
MOTHER NATURE.

NATURE, the gentlest mother, Impatient of no child, The feeblest or the waywardest, — Her admonition mild
In forest and the hill By traveller is heard, Restraining rampant squirrel Or too impetuous bird.
How fair her conversation, A summer afternoon, — Her household, her assembly; And when the sun goes down
Her voice among the aisles Incites the timid prayer Of the minutest cricket, The most unworthy flower.

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When all the children sleep She turns as long away As will suffice to light her lamps; Then, bending from the sky
With infinite affection And infiniter care, Her golden finger on her lip, Wills silence everywhere.

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