Poems by Emily Dickinson: V ("I found the phrase")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
IV
Hope

V

I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, — as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races nurtured in the dark; —
How would your own begin?
Can blaze be done in cochineal,
Or noon in mazarin?
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