Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, APRIL, by EMILY DICKINSON


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First Line: An altered look about the hills
Last Line: Receives its annual reply.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 140;poem: 90
Subject(s): April; Nature


AN altered look about the hills;
A Tyrian light the village fills;
A wider sunrise in the dawn;
A deeper twilight on the lawn;
A print of a vermilion foot;
A purple finger on the slope;
A flippant fly upon the pane;
A spider at his trade again;

An added strut in chanticleer;
A flower expected everywhere;
An axe shrill singing in the woods;
Fern-odors on untravelled roads, --
All this, and more I cannot tell,
A furtive look you know as well,
And Nicodemus' mystery
Receives its annual reply.





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