I have to admit I’m a big fan of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. Enjoy this poem today, “A Bird Came Down.”
A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.
And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad,–
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head
Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home
Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, plashless, as they swim.
Books By and About Emily Dickinson:
- Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
- The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
- Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds
- White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
