The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
Emily Dickinson Archive
I tend my flowers for thee -Bright Absentee! My Fuschzia's Coral Seams Rip - while the Sower - dreams - Geraniums - tint - and spot -Low Daisies - dot - My Cactus - splits her Beard To show her throat - Carnations - tip their spice - And Bees - pick up -A Hyacinth - I hid - Puts out a Ruffled Head - And odors fall From flasks - so small - You marvel how they held -Globe Roses - break their satin flake - Opon my Garden floor -Yet - though - nnot there -I had as lief they bore No crimson - more -Thy flower - be gay - Her Lord - away! It ill becometh me - I'll dwell in Calyx - Gray - How modestly - alway -Thy Daisy - Draped for thee!