| Some such Butterfly be seen On Brazilian Pampas - Just at noon - no later - Sweet - Then - the License closes - Some such Spice - express and pass - |
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NOTES This poem was written in 1862; during this year, Dickinson wrote her famous letter to T.W. Higginson wherein she sent him four poems and asked, "Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?". This poem gives rich imagery of beautiful things (butterflies, stars) that are glimpsed for the moment, or even for the night, but are never possessed. Brazilian Pampas: "the name given to the vast prairies
of the southernpart of Buenos Aryes in South America" (Webster's,
1856) |
