Summer Shower
Summer Shower - fact Summary
First Printed Posthumously 1891
This short poem, first published posthumously in 1891, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series. It presents a quick, celebratory account of a summer rain shower that animates domestic and rural scenes: drops on an apple tree, roofs, eaves, and a brook joining the sea. Dickinson uses lively personification and accumulation of small images to transform ordinary weather into a communal, festive event. Knowing its 1891 publication situates the poem within the early editorial history that shaped Dickinson’s posthumous reputation.
Read Complete AnalysesA drop fell on the apple tree, Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went out to help the brook, That went to help the sea. Myself conjectured, Were they pearls, What necklaces could be! The dust replaced in hoisted roads, The birds jocoser sung; The sunshine threw his hat away, The orchards spangles hung. The breezes brought dejected lutes, And bathed them in the glee; The East put out a single flag, And signed the fete away.
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