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Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts
The Bird Must Sing To Earn The Crumb
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The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb
What merit have the Tune
No Breakfast if it guaranty
The Rose content may bloom
To gain renown of Lady's Drawer
But if the Lady come
But once a Century, the Rose
Superfluous become—
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