A Mien to Move a Queen
poem 283
A Mien to Move a Queen - fact Summary
First Printed in 1891
This poem, titled A Mien To Move A Queen and catalogued as poem 283, was first published in 1891 in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series. The short lyric sketches a paradoxical feminine presence—part child, part heroine—through vivid, compact images of dress, voice, and gesture. Its economy and concentrated snapshots are typical of Dickinson's small, epigrammatic poems. Knowing its appearance in the 1891 collection helps readers locate the poem within the early assembled posthumous editions that shaped Dickinson's public reputation.
Read Complete AnalysesA Mien to move a Queen Half Child Half Heroine An Orleans in the Eye That puts its manner by For humbler Company When none are near Even a Tear Its frequent Visitor A Bonnet like a Duke And yet a Wren’s Peruke Were not so shy Of Goer by And Hands so slight They would elate a Sprite With Merriment A Voice that Alters Low And on the Ear can go Like Let of Snow Or shift supreme As tone of Realm On Subjects Diadem Too small to fear Too distant to endear And so Men Compromise And just revere
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