Would it try mine -
Worn - now - and dull - sweet,
Writing much to thee.
If it had no word -
Would it make the Daisy,
Most as big as I was -
When it plucked me?
Emily Dickinson
Manuscript: About early 1861, in pencil, signed "Emily" and sent to American journalist and editor of the Springfield Republican, Samuel Bowles, pinned around the stub of a pencil. In The Poems of Emily Dickinson, volume 3, 1998.
Black and white daguerrotype of Emily Dickinson ca. early 1847
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