A Lady red -- amid the Hill - A poem by Emily Dickinson


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Emily Dickinson - A Lady red -- amid the Hill

A Lady red -- amid the Hill
Her annual secret keeps!
A Lady white, within the Field
In placid Lily sleeps!

The tidy Breezes, with their Brooms --
Sweep vale -- and hill -- and tree!
Prithee, My pretty Housewives!
Who may expected be?

The Neighbors do not yet suspect!
The Woods exchange a smile!
Orchard, and Buttercup, and Bird --
In such a little while!

And yet, how still the Landscape stands!
How nonchalant the Hedge!
As if the "Resurrection"
Were nothing very strange!

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Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 74. A Lady red -- amid the Hill Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Poem of the Day: Jul 26 2006 Comment 1 of 1, added on December 1st, 2005 at 6:02 PM. I've attempted divination of this enigmativic verse. I supposed the lady red to be a maple...the white to be snow..the annual secret is the future blossoms.. On my first visit to her house in Amherst I looked for a hillside nearby...there is one though it's impossible to know if there was a maple tree or etc.. Greg Spearing from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, A Lady red -- amid the Hill, has received one comment so far. Click here to read it, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Emily Dickinson with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 74. A Lady red -- amid the Hill Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Last read: Jul 25 2008, 12:46AM Poem of the Day: Jul 26 2006 Viewed 4127 times. Added on December 1st, 2005 at 6:02 PM.

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