Dickinson, Emily
Emily Dickinson was a reclusive native of Amherst, Massachusetts and generally acclaimed one of America's finest poets. She had a wonderful eye (and ear) for nature, as is evident in many of her poems. She came into this world in 1830 and left in 1886.

---

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church -

I keep it staying home -

With a Bobolink for a Chorister -

And an Orchard for a Dome -

 

Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice -

I just wear my wings -

And instead of tolling the bells, for Church,

Our little sexton - sings.

 

God preaches, a noted clergyman -

And the sermon is never long,

So instead of getting to Heaven, at last -

I'm going, all along.

(Written C. 1860; first published 1864.)

To make a prairie it takes a clover

and one bee, -

One clover, and a bee,

And revery.

The revery alone will do

If bees are few.

(First published in 1945.)

 

Nature, like us is sometimes caught

Without her diadem.

Complete Poems, 1955.