We should not mind so small a flower

Except it quiet bring

Our little garden that we lost

Back to the Lawn again -

So spicy her Carnations nod -

So drunken, reel her Bees -

So silver, steal a hundred flutes

From out a hundred trees -

That whoso sees this little flower

By faith, may clear behold

The Bobolinks around the throne

And Dandelions gold.

Copyright Credit: Emily Dickinson, "We should not mind so small a flower" from THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON: VARIORUM EDITION, edited by Ralph W. Franklin, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © renewed 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1914, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1932,1935, 1937, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright © 1952, 1957, 1958, 1963,1965 by Mary L. Hampson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998)