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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVENING (1), by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: She sweeps with many-coloured brooms
Last Line: And then I come away.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers
First Line: She sweeps with many-coloured brooms
Last Line: And then I come away.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers
She sweeps with many-colored brooms,
And leaves the shreds behind;
Oh, housewife in the evening west,
Come back, and dust the pond!
.
You dropped a purple ravelling in,
You dropped an amber thread;
And now you've littered all the East
With duds of emerald!
.
And still she plies her spotted brooms,
And still the aprons fly,
Till brooms fade softly into stars --
And then I come away.
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