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AS CHILDREN BID THE GUEST GOOD-NIGHT by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Will peep, and prance again
Subject(s): CHILDREN; NIGHT;
As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their nightgowns on.

As children caper when they wake,
Merry that it is morn,
My flowers from a hundred cribs
Will peep, and prance again.


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