{"id":155,"date":"2019-06-28T02:53:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T02:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exit78.com\/poems\/?p=155"},"modified":"2019-06-28T03:01:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T03:01:19","slug":"i-dreaded-that-first-robin-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exit78.com\/poems\/i-dreaded-that-first-robin-so\/","title":{"rendered":"I dreaded that first Robin, so,"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emily Dickinson<\/b><\/p>\n\"I\n

I dreaded that first Robin, so,
\nBut He is mastered, now,
\nI’m some accustomed to Him grown,
\nHe hurts a little, though\u2014<\/p>\n

I thought if I could only live
\nTill that first Shout got by\u2014
\nNot all Pianos in the Woods
\nHad power to mangle me\u2014<\/p>\n

I dared not meet the Daffodils\u2014
\nFor fear their Yellow Gown
\nWould pierce me with a fashion
\nSo foreign to my own\u2014<\/p>\n

I wished the Grass would hurry\u2014
\nSo\u2014when ’twas time to see\u2014
\nHe’d be too tall, the tallest one
\nCould stretch\u2014to look at me\u2014<\/p>\n

I could not bear the Bees should come,
\nI wished they’d stay away
\nIn those dim countries where they go,
\nWhat word had they, for me?<\/p>\n

They’re here, though; not a creature failed\u2014
\nNo Blossom stayed away
\nIn gentle deference to me\u2014
\nThe Queen of Calvary\u2014<\/p>\n

Each one salutes me, as he goes,
\nAnd I, my childish Plumes,
\nLift, in bereaved acknowledgement
\nOf their unthinking Drums\u2014<\/p>\n\"I<\/a>\n

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References and Interpretations<\/h3>\n