If I Could Bribe Them By A Rose Poem by Emily Dickinson

If I Could Bribe Them By A Rose

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If I could bribe them by a Rose
I'd bring them every flower that grows
From Amherst to Cashmere!
I would not stop for night, or storm—
Or frost, or death, or anyone—
My business were so dear!

If they would linger for a Bird
My Tambourin were soonest heard
Among the April Woods!
Unwearied, all the summer long,
Only to break in wilder song
When Winter shook the boughs!

What if they hear me!
Who shall say
That such an importunity
May not at last avail?

That, weary of this Beggar's face—
They may not finally say, Yes—
To drive her from the Hall?

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
* Sunprincess * 30 September 2015

............beautiful vocabulary, nicely penned ★

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Eric Ericson 19 January 2015

your fine house a cage to protect you, they said but still a cage and you knew it

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