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I HIDE MYSELF WITHIN MY FLOWER by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Almost a loneliness
Subject(s): FLOWERS;
I hide myself within my flower,
That fading from your Vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me -
Almost a loneliness.


I know a place where Summer strives
With such a practised Frost-
She-each year-leads her Daisies back-
Recording briefly-"Lost"-


But when the South Wind stirs the Pools
And struggles in the lanes-
Her Heart misgives Her, for Her Vow-
And she pours soft Refrains


Into the lap of Adamant-
And spices-and the Dew-
That stiffens quietly to Quartz-
Upon her Amber Shoe


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