Emily Dickinson

It’s All I Have to Bring Today

poem 26

It’s All I Have to Bring Today - meaning Summary

Offering Self and Landscape

The speaker presents a humble gift composed of inner feeling and the surrounding natural world: their heart, fields, meadows, and bees. The poem frames this offering as everything they can bring, mixing modesty with sincerity. It asks listeners to recognize and account for what might be overlooked, suggesting trust in others and valuing small, intimate connections to landscape and self over material wealth or grand gestures.

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It’s all I have to bring today This, and my heart beside This, and my heart, and all the fields And all the meadows wide Be sure you count should I forget Some one the sum could tell This, and my heart, and all the Bees Which in the Clover dwell.

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