Poems by Emily Dickinson: Power

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Power

You cannot put a fire out;
A thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a fan
Upon the slowest night.
You cannot fold a flood
And put it in a drawer, —
Because the winds would find it out,
And tell your cedar floor.
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