Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HAVE YOU GOT A BROOK IN YOUR LITTLE HEART?, by EMILY DICKINSON


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HAVE YOU GOT A BROOK IN YOUR LITTLE HEART?, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Some burning noon go dry!
Subject(s): Brooks


Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And blushing birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?

And nobody knows, so still it flows,
That any brook is there;
And yet your little draught of life
Is daily drunken there.

Then look out for the little brook in March,
When the rivers overflow,
And the snows come hurrying from the hills,
And the bridges often go.

And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows parching lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!

He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow -
The Broad are too broad to define
And of "Truth" until it proclaimed him a Liar -
The Truth never flaunted a Sign -

Simplicity fled from his counterfeit presence
As Gold the Pyrites would shun -
What confusion would cover the innocent Jesus
To meet so enabled a Man!




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