The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
Emily Dickinson Archive
No Brigadier throughout the Year So civic as the Jay - A Neighbor and a Warrior too With shrill felicity Subduing Winds thatsunder censure usA January Day - The Brother of the Universe Was never blown away - The Snow and he are intimate - I've often seen them playWhen Heaven looked upon us all With such severityI felt apology were due To an insulted sky Whose pompous frown was NutrimentTo their temerity - The Pillow of this daring Head Is pungent Evergreens - His Larder - terse and Militant Unknown - refreshing things -His character - a Tonic - HisChances a Redoubt - • Doctrines [a Redoubt Future a Dispute - Unfair an Immortality That leaves thisMajor out Neighbor out -