Emily Dickinson

Dec. 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886

 

Apotheosis

by Emily Dickinson

Come slowly, Eden!
Lips unused to thee,
Bashful, sip thy jasmines,
As the fainting bee,

Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums,
Counts his nectars -- enters,
And is lost in balms!

Source:

Poems
Copyright 1890
Little, Brown, And Company, Boston