Emily Dickinson

To Love Thee Year by Year

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To Love Thee Year by Year - meaning Summary

Enduring Love Made Small

The speaker reflects on how steady, year-by-year love can seem diminished or like sacrifice. Doubting that the word forever captures devotion, the speaker chooses a modest, tangible gesture instead: assembling a token of care, symbolized by a flower. The poem presents endurance as expressed through small, deliberate acts rather than grand or abstract promises, suggesting love is shown in careful, crafted attention over time.

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To love thee Year by Year May less appear Than sacrifice, and cease However, dear, Forever might be short, I thought to show And so I pieced it, with a flower, now.

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