Lyric Poem · Nature
Flowers—Well—if anybody
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.
This poem is in the public domain.
“Flowers—Well—if anybody” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/flowers-well-if-anybody
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