So bashful when I spied her! - A poem by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson - So bashful when I spied her!

So bashful when I spied her!
So pretty -- so ashamed!
So hidden in her leaflets
Lest anybody find --

So breathless till I passed here --
So helpless when I turned
And bore her struggling, blushing,
Her simple haunts beyond!

For whom I robbed the Dingle --
For whom I betrayed the Dell --
Many, will doubtless ask me,
But I shall never tell!

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Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 91. So bashful when I spied her! Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Poem of the Day: Jan 13 2004 Comment 5 of 5, added on February 10th, 2012 at 7:03 PM. PIiliuqmFbyZQJL yr7LVn I envy you. The content and design of your blog is much better than mine. Who made a design for you?!.... Buy oem Software from Dominican Republic Comment 4 of 5, added on January 10th, 2011 at 9:45 PM. Stupid people! She is talking about picking flowers from a field. Emily Dickinson found beauty and God in nature. The object of beauty is the flower.The leaflets are its petals or the leaves around it. Dickinson is breathless gazing at a field of flowers, the flower struggles and blushes as she picks it. She has robbed the dell. Margaret from United States Comment 3 of 5, added on May 17th, 2007 at 3:44 PM. This poem is very personal! It shows you and tells you that Emily was a lesbian and that she did love a woman! This poem could have made her life better or worse if people would have seen it befor she died! Atleast she ahs speaked the truth to us! She wasn't afraid to tell us who she really was! And even though it goes agianst my believings that god is everything and that his commandments we shoudl follow! i would be proud of myself if i told everyone who i was like that! if it was something else i would have loved this poem! But it goes agianst my beliefs so thank you for telling me who you really are Emily! good bye everybody and let God Bless You Sarah from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, So bashful when I spied her!, has received 5 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own.

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Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 91. So bashful when I spied her! Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Last read: 2013-06-19 06:47:45 Poem of the Day: Jan 13 2004 Viewed 7490 times. Added Jan 9 2004.

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