Emily Dickinson

Bloom Upon the Mountain Stated

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Bloom Upon the Mountain Stated - meaning Summary

Anonymous Bloom, Universal Witness

The poem observes an unnamed flowering on a mountain and reflects on its silent, self-contained beauty and cycle. The speaker admits lacking the means to plant or name this purple sowing, so human efforts and renown are transient compared with the bloom27s expansive, unquestioning culmination. Those who tend or till "come, and disappear," and fame is not the flower27s witness. The mountain27s turn toward evening conveys a calm, wordless experience. Overall the poem contrasts human limitation and ephemerality with nature27s steady, impartial completion of life and rest.

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Bloom upon the Mountain stated Blameless of a Name Efflorescence of a Sunset Reproduced the same Seed, had I, my Purple Sowing Should endow the Day Not a Topic of a Twilight Show itself away Who for tilling to the Mountain Come, and disappear Whose be Her Renown, or fading, Witness, is not here While I state the Solemn Petals, Far as North and East, Far as South and West expanding Culminate in Rest And the Mountain to the Evening Fit His Countenance Indicating, by no Muscle The Experience

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