Poems by Emily Dickinson: With Flowers ("If recollecting")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
Reticence
XXVI

With Flowers

With Flowers

If recollecting were forgetting,
Then I remember not;
And if forgetting, recollecting,
How near I had forgot!
And if to miss were merry,
And if to mourn were gay,
How very blithe the fingers
That gathered these to-day!
 
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