| A Drunkard cannot meet a Cork Without a Revery - And so encountering a Fly This January Day Jamaicas of Rememberance stir That send me reeling in - The moderate drinker of Delight Does not deserve the spring - Of juleps, part are in the Jug And more are in the joy - Your connoisseur in Liquors Consults the Bumble Bee - |
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NOTES This poem was written in 1882, near the end of Dickinson's life.
The allusion to Jamacia evokes images of a lush and rich spring
in the middle of a winter day. This idea of spring is expanded:
it is a delight to be enjoyed fully, not in moderation; the joys
of spring and of nature are more intoxicating than mere liquor.
Like a drunkard rejoices in smelling wine on a cork, Dickinson
cannot meet with the memory of spring without a "revery." |
