The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
Emily Dickinson Archive
The Wind beganbegun to rock the Grass With threatening tunes and low - He flung a Menace at the Earth - A Menace at the Sky - The Leaves unhooked themselves from treesAnd started all abroad, The Dust did scoop itself like Hands And throw away the Road.The Wagons quickened on the Streets - The Thunder hurried slow -The LighteningLightning showed a Yellow Beak, And then a Vividlivid Claw - The Birds put up the Bars to Nests The Cattle fled to Barns - Then came one Drop of Giant RainAnd then as if the HandsThat held the Dams had parted hold The Waters Wrecked the Sky But overlooked my Father's House, Just quartering a tree.