We should not mind so small a flower – | Affiliated Manuscripts

H 372 (Fr82A)

ca. 1859, spring

Pencil | Fair copy

On embossed stationery

Poem-message sent to Susan Gilbert Dickinson.

We should not mind so small a flower –
Except it quiet bring
Our little garden that we lost
Back to the Lawn again –

So spicy her Carnations nod –
So drunken reel her Bees –
So silver, steal a hundred Flutes
From out a hundred trees –

That whoso sees this little flower
By faith, may clear behold
The Bobolinks around the throne
And Dandelions gold.

Emilie –

Recipient

Lucretia Gunn Dickinson Bullard (b. 1806–d. 1885)

Dickinson’s paternal aunt.

Inclusive dates of correspondence: 1864. Letters, 3; poems, 2.