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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XXXVII. A THUNDER-STORM.
THE wind begun to rock the grassWith threatening tunes and low, —He flung a menace at the earth, A menace at the sky.
The leaves unhooked themselves from treesAnd started all abroad;The dust did scoop itself like handsAnd throw away the road.
The wagons quickened on the streets,The thunder hurried slow;The lightning showed a yellow beak,And then a livid claw.
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The birds put up the bars to nests,The cattle fled to barns;There came one drop of giant rain,And then, as if the hands
That held the dams had parted hold,The waters wrecked the sky,But overlooked my father's house,Just quartering a tree.
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