Her Breast Is Fit for Pearls
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Her Breast Is Fit for Pearls - context Summary
Posthumous 1891 Publication
This short lyric was first published posthumously in 1891 in Poems by Emily Dickinson. It presents a speaker who admires another’s suitability for wealth, power, and domestic comfort while accepting a humbler role—offering a simple nest of twigs. The poem’s concise contrasts and domestic imagery reflect Dickinson’s compressed style and private voice, emphasizing restraint, self-effacement, and quiet devotion rather than overt social ambition.
Read Complete AnalysesHer breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a Diver Her brow is fit for thrones But I have not a crest. Her heart is fit for home I a Sparrow build there Sweet of twigs and twine My perennial nest.
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