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Perhaps you’d like to buy a flower (134)

Emily Dickinson
Track 48 on Poems 1890 
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Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower,
But I could never sell—
If you would like to borrow,
Until the Daffodil

Unties her yellow Bonnet
Beneath the village door,
Until the Bees, from Clover rows
Their Hock, and Sherry, draw,

Why, I will lend until just then,
But not an hour more!

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Poems 1890 (1890)
Emily Dickinson
  1. 1.
    Success
  2. 2.
    Our share of night to bear (113)
  3. 3.
    Rouge Et Noir
  4. 4.
    Rouge Gagne
  5. 5.
    Glee—The great storm is over (619)
  6. 6.
    If I can stop one heart from breaking
  7. 7.
    Almost
  8. 9.
    The Heart asks Pleasure - first - (536)
  9. 10.
    In A Library
  10. 11.
    Much Madness is divinest Sense
  11. 12.
    I asked no other thing (621)
  12. 14.
    The Secret
  13. 15.
    I know some lonely Houses off the Road (289)
  14. 17.
    Dawn
  15. 18.
    The Book Of Martyrs
  16. 19.
    The Mystery of Pain
  17. 20.
    I taste a liquor never brewed
  18. 21.
    A Book
  19. 22.
    I had no time to Hate (478)
  20. 23.
    Unreturning
  21. 24.
    Whether my bark went down at sea
  22. 25.
    Belshazzar Had A Letter
  23. 26.
    The Brain, within its Groove (556)
  24. 27.
    Mine
  25. 28.
    Bequest
  26. 29.
    Alter! When the Hills do
  27. 30.
    Suspense
  28. 31.
    Surrender
  29. 32.
    If you were coming in the fall
  30. 33.
    With A Flower
  31. 34.
    Proof
  32. 35.
    Have you got a Brook in your little heart
  33. 36.
    Transplanted
  34. 37.
    The Outlet (162)
  35. 38.
    In Vain
  36. 39.
    Renunciation
  37. 40.
    Love’s Baptism
  38. 41.
    Resurrection
  39. 42.
    Apocalypse
  40. 43.
    The Wife
  41. 44.
    Apotheosis
  42. 45.
    New feet within my garden go (99)
  43. 46.
    May-Flower
  44. 47.
    Why
  45. 48.
    Perhaps you’d like to buy a flower (134)
  46. 49.
    The pedigree of honey
  47. 50.
    A Service of Song
  48. 51.
    The Bee is not afraid
  49. 52.
    Summer’s Armies
  50. 53.
    The Grass
  51. 54.
    A little road not made man
  52. 55.
    Summer Shower
  53. 56.
    Psalm of the Day
  54. 57.
    The Sea Of Sunset
  55. 58.
    The Purple Clover
  56. 59.
    The Bee
  57. 60.
    “Presentiment is that long shadow”
  58. 61.
    As Children bid the Guest “Good Night” (133)
  59. 62.
    Angels, in the early morning
  60. 63.
    So bashful when I spied her! (91)
  61. 64.
    Two worlds
  62. 65.
    The Mountain sat upon the Plain
  63. 66.
    A Day
  64. 67.
    The butterfly’s assumption-gown
  65. 68.
    The Wind
  66. 69.
    Death And Life
  67. 70.
    T Was Later When The Summer Went
  68. 71.
    Indian Summer
  69. 72.
    Autumn
  70. 73.
    Beclouded
  71. 74.
    I think the Hemlock likes to stand (525)
  72. 75.
    There’s a certain Slant of light
  73. 76.
    One dignity delays for all
  74. 77.
    Too Late
  75. 78.
    Astra Castra
  76. 79.
    Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
  77. 80.
    On this long storm the Rainbow rose
  78. 81.
    From The Chrysalis
  79. 82.
    Setting Sail
  80. 83.
    Look back on time with kindly eyes
  81. 84.
    A Train Went Through A Burial Gate
  82. 85.
    I died for Beauty — but was scarce
  83. 86.
    Troubled About Many Things
  84. 87.
    Real
  85. 88.
    The Funeral
  86. 89.
    I went to thank Her (363)
  87. 90.
    I’ve seen a Dying Eye (547)
  88. 91.
    Refuge
  89. 92.
    I Never Saw a Moor
  90. 93.
    Playmates
  91. 94.
    To know just how He suffered—would be dear
  92. 95.
    The last Night that She lived (1100)
  93. 96.
    The First Lesson
  94. 97.
    The Bustle In The House
  95. 98.
    I reason, Earth is short
  96. 99.
    Afraid! Of whom am I afraid?
  97. 100.
    Dying
  98. 101.
    Two Swimmers Wrestled On A Spar
  99. 102.
    The Chariot
  100. 103.
    She went as quiet as the Dew
  101. 104.
    Resurgam
  102. 105.
    Except To Heave She Is Nought
  103. 106.
    Death is a Dialogue between
  104. 107.
    It was too late for Man
  105. 108.
    Along The Potomac
  106. 109.
    The Daisy follows soft the Sun
  107. 110.
    Emancipation
  108. 111.
    Lost
  109. 112.
    If I shouldn’t be alive
  110. 113.
    Sleep is supposed to be
  111. 114.
    I shall know why—when Time is over
  112. I never lost as much but twice
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