Read the poem: “She sweeps with many-colored brooms”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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She went as quiet as the dew > > >

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She sweeps with many-colored brooms

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She sweeps with many-colored brooms,

And leaves the shreds behind;

Oh, housewife in the evening west,

Come back, and dust the pond!

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You dropped a purple ravelling in,

You dropped an amber thread;

And now you ‘ve littered all the East

With duds of emerald!

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And still she plies her spotted brooms,

And still the aprons fly,

Till brooms fade softly into stars —

And then I come away.

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< < < Setting Sail
She went as quiet as the dew > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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