"XLV [Before the ice is in the pools]" by Emily Dickinson

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend Support Poem-a-Day December 25, 2019   XLV [Before the ice is in the pools]   Emily Dickinson

Before the ice is in the pools,       Before the skaters go, Or any cheek at nightfall       Is tarnished by the snow,   Before the fields have finished,       Before the Christmas tree, Wonder upon wonder       Will arrive to me!   What we touch the hems of       On a summer's day; What is only walking       Just a bridge away;   That which sings so, speaks so,       When there's no one here,— Will the frock I wept in       Answer me to wear?            About this Poem   "XLV [Before the ice is in the pools]" was originally published in Poems: Third Series (Boston Roberts Brothers, 1896).   Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. While she was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. She died in Amherst in 1886, and the first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890. Poetry by Dickinson   The Poems of Emily Dickinson (Harvard University Press, 2005) "Wonder and Joy" by Robinson Jeffers "Christmas in the Heart" by Paul Laurence Dunbar "Snow Globe" by Kathy Fagan December Guest Editor: Paisley Rekdal   Thanks to Paisley Rekdal, author of Nightingale (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month's weekdays. Read a Q&A with Rekdal about her curatorial approach this month and find out more about our guest editors for the year. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit poets.org   Unsubscribe here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038

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