 |
 | ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
 |
 |
| Emily Dickinson |
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She attended
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley but severe homesickness led her
to return home after one year.... More > |
|
|
|
 |
| To make a prairie (1755)
|
|
|
by Emily Dickinson |
|
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few. |
Poetry used by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Ralph W. Franklin
ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright
© 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright ©
1951, 1955, 1979, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. |
|
|