Emily Dickinson

Here you will find thePoemMidsummer, was it, when They diedof poet Emily Dickinson

Midsummer, was it, when They died

962 Midsummer, was it, when They died— A full, and perfect time— The Summer closed upon itself In Consummated Bloom— The Corn, her furthest kernel filled Before the coming Flail— When These—leaned unto Perfectness— Through Haze of Burial—