Emily+Dickinson+Poems

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 * "A Bird Came Down the Walk"**

A Bird, came down the Walk — He did not know I saw — He bit an Angle Worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw,

And then, he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass — And then hopped sidewise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass —

He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried all abroad — They looked like frightened Beads, I thought, He stirred his Velvet Head. —

Like one in danger, Cautious, I offered him a Crumb, And he unrolled his feathers And rowed him softer Home —

Than Oars divide the Ocean, Too silver for a seam, Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon, Leap, plashless as they swim

**"A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"**

A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides — You may have met Him — did you not His notice sudden is —

The Grass divides as with a Comb — A spotted shaft is seen — And then it closes at your feet And opens further on —

He likes a Boggy Acre A Floor too cool for Corn — Yet when a Boy, and Barefoot — I more than once at Noon

Have passed, I thought, a Whip lash Unbraiding in the Sun When stooping to secure it It wrinkled and was gone —

Several of Nature's People I know, and they know me — I feel for them a transport Of cordiality —

But never met this Fellow, Attended, or alone Without a tighter breathing And Zero at the Bone —

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