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Circuit I - (01) A Route of Evanescence (Humming Bird) (J-1463) (F-1489) Listen to A Hummingbird (64K, wav)

(1) A route of evanescence       With a revolving wheel, (2) A resonance of emerald,       A rush of cochineal — (3) And every blossom on the bush   Adjusts its tumbled head. (4) The mail from Tunis, probably,     An easy morning's ride. (Below: an original manuscript version without editing or imposed lineation [Franklin #D]. See index for more of Dickinson's step, ramble and road poems.) (1) A Route of   Evanescence With a revolving Wheel – (2) A Resonance   of Emerald – A Rush of   Cochineal – (3) And every Blossom on the Bush Adjusts it's tumbled Head – (4) The Mail from     Tunis, probably, An easy   Morning's Ride – ~ Emily Dickinson Slideshow ~ Pathways!

Commentary adapted from Emily Dickinson's Poems & Letters

(1) "All we secure of beauty is it's evanescences." ~ (L #781)

(1) "What tenements of clover are fitting for the bee . . . what residences nimble arise and evanesce." ~ (J-1338) (F-1358)

(1) "Within my garden, rides a bird upon a single wheel — whose spokes a dizzy music make as 'twere a travelling mill." ~ (J-0500) (F-0373)

(1-4) "The humming-birds and orioles fly by me as I write." ~ (L #825)

(3) "Blossoms are so peculiarly consecrated . . ." ~ (L #527)

(3-4) "And when the humming birds come down – geranium and I shut our eyes – and go far away." ~ (L #235)

(3-4) "When I am rather low-spirited nothing seems to cheer me so much as a letter from a friend." ~ (L #8)

(3-4) "A letter is a joy of earth – it is denied the gods." ~ (L #963) (J-1639) (F-1672)

(4) "Count not that far that can be had, though sunset lie between – nor that adjacent, that beside, is further than the sun." ~ (J-1074) (F-1124)

(4) ref. compare with Shakespeare: the sun delivering mail from Tunis: The Tempest II i 246-48

(4) "There will be romance in [my] letter's ride to you – think of the hills and the dales, and the rivers it will pass over, and the drivers and conductors who will hurry it on to you; and won't that make a poem such as can ne'er be written?" ~ (L #77)

(4) "I write from the Land of Violets, and from the Land of Spring." ~ (L #85)

(4) "My letter as a bee, goes laden." ~ (L #133)

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