I cannot meet the Spring unmoved－1
I feel the old desire－
A Hurry with a lingering, mixed,
A Warrant to be fair－
A Competition in my sense 5
With something hid in Her－
And as she vanishes, Remorse
I saw no more of Her.
I feel the old desire－
A Hurry with a lingering, mixed,
A Warrant to be fair－
A Competition in my sense 5
With something hid in Her－
And as she vanishes, Remorse
I saw no more of Her.
(F.1122/J.1051)
[1] Spring:: a sprout, shoot.
[2] old desire:: growing up is a plant's natural desire.
[3] Hurry, lingering:: a mixed feeling of sprouting. If we compare the spring with pregnancy, this line means a hurry in growing of the baby, and a hesitating mother.
[5] my sense:: sprouting inspires this poem, similar to pregnancy in a woman's sense.
[6] something hid in Her:: a hint on a woman having a baby in her womb.
[7] she vanishes:: we can say the sprout vanishing as it growing to a stem, but most likely the sprout dies. Remorse:: bramble, a plant with thrones.
[8] no more:: any spring can fit this poem, but Dickinson chose remorse, which makes me believe she tried to say the spring failed, like an abortion.
Remorse . . . Bramble. Raspberry. ─ The Language of Flowers (1858)
Remorse. Bramble ─ The Lady's Book of Flowers and Poetry (1860)
Though the bramble is rather annoying with its long trailing stems and its sharp thorns, the fruit, commonly called blackberry, is perhaps, in its wild state (and it does not need to be cultivated), among the best, and certainly it is the most abundant, of our native berries. ─ A Description and History of Vegetable Substances (1830)