XLVIII.

Name: Poems, Second Series - XLVIII.
Author: Emily Dickinson

GOD made a little gentian;

It tried to be a rose

And failed, and all the summer laughed.

But just before the snows

There came a purple creature

That ravished all the hill;

And summer hid her forehead,

And mockery was still.

The frosts were her condition;

The Tyrian would not come

Until the North evoked it.

"Creator! shall I bloom?"

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Chicago: Emily Dickinson, "XLVIII.," Poems, Second Series Original Sources, accessed June 30, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D2TTZBMX1F2LP8F.

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