Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUNSET AND SUNRISE, by EMILY DICKINSON



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First Line: I'll tell you how the sun rose
Last Line: And led the flock away.
Subject(s): Sun


I'll tell you how the sun rose, --
A ribbon at a time.
The steepless swam in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran.
The hills untied their bonnets,
The bobolinks begun.
Then I said softly to myself,
"That must have been the sun!"
But how he set, I know not.
There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were climbing all the while
Till when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars, --
And led the flock away.




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