Emily on Winter

New England Early Winter. 1849. By Samuel Lanc...
Image via Wikipedia

The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A traveling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.

A narrow wind complains all day
How someone treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.

~Emily Dickinson

 

Image: New England Early Winter. 1949. By S.L. Gerry (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Comm

4 thoughts on “Emily on Winter

Comments are closed.