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Emily Dickinson - Summer for thee, grant I may be

Summer for thee, grant I may be
When Summer days are flown!
Thy music still, when Whipporwill
And Oriole -- are done!

For thee to bloom, I'll skip the tomb
And row my blossoms o'er!
Pray gather me --
Anemone --
Thy flower -- forevermore!

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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 31. Summer for thee, grant I may be
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955

Comment 2 of 2, added on March 29th, 2007 at 11:43 PM.

As always, Nature speaks in this poem. Almost a prayer that the speaker, the anemone, be allowed to be "summer" when it is gone; to be music when the songs of the birds are gone. Then, an abrupt promise: to bloom for the hearer, the anemone will be plowed under. Then the prayer again that the speaker, the anemone, be gathered forever. Typical Dickinson: personification and a dialogue between some element of nature speaking to the hearer or reader, in this case. Yes, this is a "summer" poem.

Loretta from United States
Comment 1 of 2, added on March 14th, 2007 at 6:38 PM.

HEy its the summer ANd i love this poem~~~~

NORma from United States

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