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Public-domain poetry · from the anthology

Absent Place -- an April Day --

by Emily Dickinson

19th-Century American · Short · 8 lines

Absent Place -- an April Day -- Daffodils a-blow Homesick curiosity To the Souls that snow -- Drift may block within it Deeper than without -- Daffodil delight but Him it duplicate --

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Public domain. Source: PoetryDB. Reproduced verbatim; see theanthology for the full collection.

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