“It is lonely without the birds to-day, for it rains badly, and the little poets have no umbrellas.”
source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson vol 2 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1955), 471.
category: bird, loneliness, nature, poet, rain, umbrella
medium: letter
notes: letter to Louise Norcross, Dickinson's first cousin, May 1870?
umbrella