Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

My Cricket

Farther in summer than the birds,
Pathetic from the grass,
A minor nation celebrates
Its unobtrusive mass.

No ordinance is seen,
So gradual the grace,
A pensive custom it becomes,
Enlarging loneliness.

Antiquest felt at noon
When August, burning low,
Calls forth this spectral canticle,
Repose to typify.

Remit as yet no grace,
No furrow on the glow,
Yet a druidic difference
Enhances nature now.

1. Fringed Gentian
2. The Snow
3. The Blue Jay
4. The Only Ghost I Ever Saw
5. There Is a Shame of Nobleness

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