May 25, 2006

Hummingbirds and A Poet

Within My Garden, Rides a Bird

by Emily Dickinson

    Within my Garden, rides a Bird Upon a single Wheel -- Whose spokes a dizzy Music make As 'twere a travelling Mill --
    He never stops, but slackens Above the Ripest Rose -- Partakes without alighting And praises as he goes,
    Till every spice is tasted -- And then his Fairy Gig Reels in remoter atmospheres -- And I rejoin my Dog,
    And He and I, perplex us, If positive, 'twere we -- Or bore the Garden in the Brain This Curiosity --
    But He, the best Logician, Refers my clumsy eye -- To just vibrating Blossoms! An Exquisite Reply!