Poems by Emily Dickinson: X ("To my quick ear")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
IX
A Rose

X

To my quick ear the leaves conferred;
The bushes they were bells;
I could not find a privacy
From Nature's sentinels.
In cave if I presumed to hide,
The walls began to tell;
Creation seemed a mighty crack
To make me visible.
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