So much Summer
So much Summer Me for showing Illegitimate -- Would a Smile's minute bestowing Too exorbitant
To the Lady With the Guinea Look -- if She should know Crumb of Mine A Robin's Larder Would suffice to stow --
Emily Dickinson
So much Summer Me for showing Illegitimate -- Would a Smile's minute bestowing Too exorbitant
To the Lady With the Guinea Look -- if She should know Crumb of Mine A Robin's Larder Would suffice to stow --
The speaker feels an overflowing sense of summer — so much life and warmth — but she sees herself as somehow not entitled to show it, as if her joy is illegitimate.
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