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Poems, Second Series

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Author: Emily Dickinson | Date: 1891

XXXI.

NATURE rarer uses yellow

Than another hue;

Saves she all of that for sunsets,-

Prodigal of blue,

Spending scarlet like a woman,

Yellow she affords

Only scantly and selectly,

Like a lover’s words.

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Chicago: Emily Dickinson, "XXXI.," Poems, Second Series Original Sources, accessed July 9, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4TL4T8IGHETL9HA.

MLA: Dickinson, Emily. "XXXI." Poems, Second Series, Original Sources. 9 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4TL4T8IGHETL9HA.

Harvard: Dickinson, E, 'XXXI.' in Poems, Second Series. Original Sources, retrieved 9 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4TL4T8IGHETL9HA.