A day by Emily Dickinson
- Posted on 3rd November 2023
- in This-n-that
- by Dragonfly
Sunrise Picture by dragonfly.
1830 –1886
I’ll tell you how the sun rose, —
A ribbon at a time.
The steeples 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.
This version of “A Day” appeared in the 1891 edition of Poems by Emily Dickinson.