A Shady Friend For Torrid Days Poem by Emily Dickinson

A Shady Friend For Torrid Days

Rating: 2.8


A shady friend for torrid days
Is easier to find
Than one of higher temperature
For frigid hour of mind.

The vane a little to the east
Scares muslin souls away;
If broadcloth breasts are firmer
Than those of organdy,

Who is to blame? The weaver?
Ah! the bewildering thread!
The tapestries of paradise!
So notelessly are made!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Barnaby Kyte 18 July 2018

Beautifully abstract. I like it.

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Indira Renganathan 10 November 2016

So notelessly are made.....agree- 10

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* Sunprincess * 20 September 2015

......an intriguing poem and flows nicely ★

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Angelina Holmes 05 May 2014

I agree Lydia! She uses punctuation in such a musical manner!

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Lydia Eby 30 March 2006

Again, the punctuation means just as much as the words do to a poem.

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