THE SUN'S WOOING - The sun just touched the morning

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The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.

She felt herself supremer, --
A raised, ethereal thing;
Henceforth for her what holiday!
Meanwhile, her wheeling king

Trailed slow along the orchards
His haughty, spangled hems,
Leaving a new necessity, --
The want of diadems!

The morning fluttered, staggered,
Felt feebly for her crown, --
Her unanointed forehead
Henceforth her only one.

More poems by Emily Dickinson

There's been a death in the opposite house / As lately as to-day.

I meant to find her when I came; / Death had the same design;

AMBITION cannot find him, / Affection doesn't know

LIKE brooms of steel / The Snow and Wind