I HAVE NOT TOLD MY GARDEN YET
by: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- HAVE not told my garden yet,
- Lest that should conquer me;
- I have not quite the strength now
- To break it to the bee.
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- I will not name it in the street,
- For shops would stare, that I,
- So shy, so very ignorant,
- Should have the face to die.
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- The hillsides must not know it,
- Where I have rambled so,
- Nor tell the loving forests
- The day that I shall go,
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- Nor lisp it at the table,
- Nor heedless by the way
- Hint that within the riddle
- One will walk to-day!
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