Flowers -- Well -- if anybody

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Written by:

Emily Dickinson (other works)

Poem #:

137

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Language:

English

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Poetry

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Preceded by:

Have you got a Brook in your little heart, -136-

Succeeded by:

Pigmy seraphs -- gone astray -- -138-

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Flowers -- Well -- if anybody
Can the ecstasy define --
Half a transport -- half a trouble --
With which flowers humble men:
Anybody find the fountain
From which floods so contra flow --
I will give him all the Daisies
Which upon the hillside blow.

Too much pathos in their faces
For a simple breast like mine --
Butterflies from St. Domingo
Cruising round the purple line --
Have a system of aesthetics --
Far superior to mine.