Lyric Poem · Nature
My Season's furthest Flower
My Season's furthest Flower —
I tenderer commend
Because I found Her Kinsmanless,
A Grace without a Friend.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- My Season's furthest Flower
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 4 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Nature, Friendship, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 4 lines · one 4-line stanza
- Line length
- Consistent with short metre. Two short lines, one longer, one short (6.6.8.6) — the short hymn stanza.
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBMy Season's furthest Flower by emily-dickinson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 acf60267721cb126…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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