I'll tell you how the Sun rose by Emily Dickinson

[kellyrfineman]

After yesterday's post, Shakespeare's "Doubt thou the stars are fire" from Hamlet, I was stumped as to how to end this year's National Poetry Month observance. So stumped, in fact, that I am cheating and backdating this post for the 30th, even though it's being written on May Day. But this morning, you see, it occurred to me to end the month with

Comments

[jamarattigan]

What an absolutely lovely poem! Wonderful way to usher in a new month :)!

[kellyrfineman]

Gotta love Miss Dickinson!

[kellyrfineman]

I knew "stile" from reading about the English countryside as part of my Austen research, but figured others might not. And anytime I have to look a word up myself (such as Dominie), I share the definition - no sense making everyone look it up.

[kellyrfineman]

Me too! That, and the children climbing the stile, are what sold me on this particular Dickinson sun-related poem!