Home: Poetry: Emily Dickinson: Mushroom MUSHROOM a poem by Emily Dickinson   The mushroom is the elf of plants, At evening it is not; At morning in a truffled hut It stops upon a spot   As if it tarried always; And yet its whole career Is shorter than a snake's delay, And fleeter than a tare.   'Tis vegetation's juggler, The germ of alibi; Doth like a bubble antedate, And like a bubble hie.   I feel as if the grass were pleased To have it intermit; The surreptitious scion Of summer's circumspect.   Had nature any outcast face, Could she a son condemn, Had nature an Iscariot, That mushroom,--it is him. BACK TO EMILY DICKINSON INDEX RELATED WEBSITES Emily Dickinson: Poems - An index of poems by Dickinson. Emily Dickinson: Bibliography - A bibliography of Dickinson's poetic and prose works; includes a list of critical resources. Nature poems - An index of poems on nature. Find articles on Emily Dickinson Purchase books by Emily Dickinson Find articles on EMILY DICKINSON:

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