Read the poem: “The bee is not afraid of me”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
< < < The Bee
The Bluebird > > >

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The bee is not afraid of me

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The bee is not afraid of me,

I know the butterfly;

The pretty people in the woods

Receive me cordially.

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The brooks laugh louder when I come,

The breezes madder play.

Wherefore, mine eyes, thy silver mists?

Wherefore, O summer’s day?

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< < < The Bee
The Bluebird > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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