Poems by Emily Dickinson: XXXIV ("A shady friend")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
The Duel
The Goal

XXXIV

A shady friend for torrid days
Is easier to find
Than one of higher temperature
For frigid hour of mind.
The vane a little to the east
Scares muslin souls away;
If broadcloth breasts are firmer
Than those of organdy,
Who is to blame? The weaver?
Ah! the bewildering thread!
The tapestries of paradise
So notelessly are made!
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