The Grass
In "The Grass," a short poem to read online, Emily Dickinson looks at a green meadow with playful envy. The grass has little to do but host butterflies, entertain bees, sway to the breeze and wear dew like pearls. Her speaker drifts through a gentle, sunlit mood, watching even the grass's fragrant afterlife in the barn as hay. The central tension is a quiet longing: what would it feel like to be so free of worry?
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