A Day by Emily Dickinson

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend December 10, 2014   A Day   Emily Dickinson

I’ll tell you how the sun rose, — A ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran.   The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, “That must have been the sun!”   But how he set, I know not. There seemed a purple stile Which little yellow boys and girls Were climbing all the while   Till when they reached the other side, A dominie in gray Put gently up the evening bars, And led the flock away.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   This version of “A Day” appeared in the 1891 edition of Poems by Emily Dickinson, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Between 1850 and 1866, ten Dickinson poems appeared in newspapers, all anonymously and likely without her knowledge.   Emily Dickinson authored nearly 1,800 poems during her lifetime. She is considered to be one of America’s most important poets. Dickinson was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, and died in Amherst in 1886. Poetry by Dickinson   The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Bay Back Books, 1976) "The Clouded Morning" by Jones Very "A Windflower" by Lizette Woodworth Reese "My Heart Leaps Up" by William Wordsworth Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. 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.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038