A Light Exists In Spring Poem by Emily Dickinson

A Light Exists In Spring

Rating: 3.2


A light exists in spring
Not present on the year
At any other period.
When March is scarcely here

A color stands abroad
On solitary hills
That science cannot overtake,
But human naturefeels.

It waits upon the lawn;
It shows the furthest tree
Upon the furthest slope we know;
It almost speaks to me.

Then, as horizons step,
Or noons report away,
Without the formula of sound,
It passes, and we stay:

A quality of loss
Affecting our content,
As trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a sacrament.

A Light Exists In Spring
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
* Sunprincess * 29 April 2014

.........light is magical....wonderful poem...

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Angelina Holmes 04 May 2014

Spring is the best season!

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* Sunprincess * 30 March 2014

........a wonderful poem....and spring is a great theme...enjoyed...

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Resh Kav 26 June 2017

Beauty of nature.. Nice poem

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Henry Tong 16 February 2018

What a lucid expression of Spring... I guess Emily Dickinson mixed nature with faith so that all Creatures were alive in her pen.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 31 October 2023

TOP Marks Full for this gorgeous poem, masterfully ended, only Emily can do like this. None other. To MyFavourites. CONGRATS to the family of the late great poetess being chosen as The Classic Poem Of The Day.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 31 October 2023

The poem explores the limits of human perception, the conflict between scientific explanation and intuition, and the frustrating gap between moments of intense spirituality and humdrum everyday life.

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Kumarmani Mahakul 31 October 2023

A quality of loss Affecting our content, As trade had suddenly encroached Upon a sacrament......... outstanding concept. A beautiful poem having nice theme. Full stars.

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Deepak Kumar Pattanayak 04 September 2020

Very outstanding so brilliantly expressed about nature by the greatest poetess of all time 10++++++

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Rajnish Manga 04 September 2020

A fascinating landscape or a series of those lovely portrayals. It is the greed of man that takes away the sheen out the nature's bounties, Thanks.

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