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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SKIES CAN'T KEEP THEIR SECRET!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In your new-fashioned world! Subject(s): Gossip; News | |||
The Skies can't keep their secret! They tell it to the Hills - The Hills just tell the Orchards - And they-the Daffodils! A Bird - by chance - that goes that way - Soft overhears the whole - If I should bribe the little Bird - Who knows but she would tell? I think I won't - however - It's finer - not to know - If Summer were an Axiom - What sorcery had snow? So keep your secret - Father! I would not - if I could - Know what the Sapphire Fellows, do, In your new-fashioned world! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WE BILLION CHEERED by GLYN MAXWELL THOSE SEINFELD DAYS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENS EXCEPT I LOVE YOU by E. ETHELBERT MILLER THEN AND NOW by CECIL DAY LEWIS AFTER THE NEWSCAST by ANSELM HOLLO INFO; FOR JOE CARDARELLI by ANSELM HOLLO TURN OFF THE NEWS by ANSELM HOLLO |
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