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THE BLUEBIRD by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: BEFORE YOU THOUGHT OF SPRING, / EXCEPT AS A SURMISE
Last Line: BUT HIS SERAPHIC SELF!
Subject(s): BIRDS; BLUEBIRDS;
Before you thought of spring,
Except as a surmise,
You see, God bless his suddenness,
A fellow in the skies
Of independent hues,
A little weather-worn,
Inspiriting habiliments
Of indigo and brown.
With specimens of song,
As if for you to choose,
Discretion in the interval,
With gay delays he goes
To some superior tree
Without a single leaf,
And shouts for joy to nobody
But his seraphic self!


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