Poems: Second Series (Dickinson)/The Humming-Bird

by Emily Dickinson

For works with similar titles, see The Humming-Bird.

XV.

THE HUMMING-BIRD

A ROUTE of evanescence
With a revolving wheel;
A resonance of emerald,
A rush of cochineal;
And every blossom on the bush
Adjusts its tumbled head,—
The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy morning's ride.