Hope

Photo by Pat Horsley // CC
Photo by Pat Horsley // CC

Many of Emily Dickinson’s poems were untitled like this one. Instead it’s known by its number.

#254
by Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

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