Poems (Dickinson)/May-Flower

by Emily Dickinson

For other versions of this work, see Pink—small—and punctual—.

II.

MAY-FLOWER

Pink, small, and punctual,
Aromatic, low,
Covert in April,
Candid in May,

Dear to the moss,
Known by the knoll,
Next to the robin
In every human soul.

Bold little beauty,
Bedecked with thee,
Nature forswears
Antiquity.