IF pain for peace prepares,
Lo the "Augustan" years
Our feet await!
If Springs from Winter rise,
Can the Anemone’s
Be reckoned up?
If night stands first, then noon,
To gird us for the sun,
What gaze-
When, from a thousand skies,
On our developed eyes
Noons blaze!
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Chicago: Emily Dickinson, "LXXXI.," The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime Original Sources, accessed July 3, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4YH6GTGXW8IJSWF.
MLA: Dickinson, Emily. "LXXXI." The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime, Original Sources. 3 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4YH6GTGXW8IJSWF.
Harvard: Dickinson, E, 'LXXXI.' in The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime. Original Sources, retrieved 3 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4YH6GTGXW8IJSWF.