Perhaps you’d like to buy a flower
In "Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower," Emily Dickinson turns a simple shop counter into a spring riddle. A speaker offers blooms that can never be sold, only lent, and only until the daffodil unties her yellow bonnet and the bees come for their clover "hock and sherry." The tone is teasing and tender, full of playful imagery and a sly sense of fleeting time. In just a few lines, the poem makes borrowed beauty feel precious.
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