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A poem by Emily Dickinson

The Hemlock

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Title:     The Hemlock
Author: Emily Dickinson [More Titles by Dickinson]

I think the hemlock likes to stand
Upon a marge of snow;
It suits his own austerity,
And satisfies an awe

That men must slake in wilderness,
Or in the desert cloy, --
An instinct for the hoar, the bald,
Lapland's necessity.

The hemlock's nature thrives on cold;
The gnash of northern winds
Is sweetest nutriment to him,
His best Norwegian wines.

To satin races he is nought;
But children on the Don
Beneath his tabernacles play,
And Dnieper wrestlers run.




[The end]
Emily Dickinson's poem: The Hemlock

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