Lyric Poem · Nature
Would you like summer? Taste of ours
Would you like summer? Taste of ours.
Spices? Buy here!
Ill! We have berries, for the parching!
Weary! Furloughs of down!
Perplexed! Estates of violet trouble ne'er looked on!
Captive! We bring reprieve of roses!
Fainting! Flasks of air!
Even for Death, a fairy medicine.
But, which is it, sir?
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“Would you like summer? Taste of ours” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/would-you-like-summer-taste-of-ours
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- Poem
- Would you like summer? Taste of ours
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 9 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Nature, Summer, Death & Loss, Short
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBWould you like summer? Taste of ours by emily-dickinson, PoetryDB transcription
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- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
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