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A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.
And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad, --
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head
Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home
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Emily Dickinson published almost nothing in her lifetime and left nearly 1,800 poems in manuscript. This one appeared in Poems in 1890, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who smoothed her punctuation and added titles. Later editions restored her own dashes and capitals. Project Gutenberg carries the 1890 collection.
About this text
Emily Dickinson published almost nothing in her lifetime and left nearly 1,800 poems in manuscript. This one appeared in Poems in 1890, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who smoothed her punctuation and added titles. Later editions restored her own dashes and capitals. Project Gutenberg carries the 1890 collection.
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