Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BLAZING IN GOLD, by EMILY DICKINSON



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First Line: Blazing in gold and quenching in purple
Last Line: And the juggler of day is gone!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 321;poem: 228
Subject(s): Nature


BLAZING in gold and quenching in purple,
Leaping like leopards to the sky,
Then at the feet of the old horizon
Laying her spotted face, to die;

Stooping as low as the kitchen window,
Touching the roof and tinting the barn,
Kissing her bonnet to the meadow, --
And the juggler of day is gone!





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