Poems (Dickinson)/She went as quiet as the dew

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Poems (1890)
by Emily Dickinson
She went as quiet as the dew
5193Poems — She went as quiet as the dew1890Emily Dickinson

XXVIII.

She went as quiet as the dew
From a familiar flower.
Not like the dew did she return
At the accustomed hour!

She dropt as softly as a star
From out my summer's eve;
Less skilful than Leverrier
It's sorer to believe!