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The Butterflys Assumption Gown

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The Butterflys Assumption Gown by Emily Dickinson

 The Butterfly's Assumption Gown
In Chrysoprase Apartments hung
This afternoon put on --

How condescending to descend
And be of Buttercups the friend
In a New England Town --

Form: Lyric

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