Poems by Emily Dickinson: XXXI ("Nature rarer uses yellow")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
The Wind's Visit
Gossip

XXXI

Nature rarer uses yellow
Than another hue;
Saves she all of that for sunsets, —
Prodigal of blue,
Spending scarlet like a woman,
Yellow she affords
Only scantly and selectly,
Like a lover's words.
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