The fairest Home I ever knew
The fairest Home I ever knew Was founded in an Hour By Parties also that I knew A spider and a Flower -- A manse of mechlin and of Floes --
Emily Dickinson
The fairest Home I ever knew Was founded in an Hour By Parties also that I knew A spider and a Flower -- A manse of mechlin and of Floes --
In just a few lines, Emily Dickinson remembers the loveliest home she ever saw—created in a single hour by a spider and a flower. The speaker isn’t talking about a human house, but something much more delicate and fleeting.
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