A Bird Came Down
by EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)
featuring voice artist Tracey KummrowA 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.
![]() During her lifetime, only 10 of Emily Dickinson’s poems found their way into print, all anonymously. After her death, interest in her work resulted in the publication of 3 slim volumes of selections in the 1890s. It was not until 1955 that her entire corpus of 1,775 poems appeared. |
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