“Hope” is the thing with feathers - By Emily Dickinson

[conuly]

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314

Comments

[wpadmirer]

I have always loved that poem.

[suchasnack]

♥

[peristaltor]

Hence the joke in the Woody Allen book title, Without Feathers.

[adafrog]

Nice