Emily Dickinson's Correspondences
Correspondence with Susan Dickinson


H 249a
Essential Oils are 
wrung - 
The Attar from the 
Rose 
Is not expressed 
by Suns - alone - 
It is the gift of 
Screws - 
The General Rose 
decay - 
While this - in 
Lady's Drawer 
Make Summer, when 

H 249b

the Lady lie 
Is Spiceless Sepulchre. 
       Emily -


 

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