Playfully Speaking

Come, slowly, Eden!

Author

Emily Dickinson

Come slowly, Eden!

Come slowly, Eden!
lips unused to thee,
Bashful, sip thy jasmines,
As the fainting bee,

Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums,
Counts his nectars --enters,
And is lost in balms!

Poem I.D.

2014

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