• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Poetry Catalog

We honor great poets. We honor great poetry.

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Submit Your Work
  • Writers
  • Advertising / Subscription

Perhaps You’d Like To Buy A Flower?, By: Emily Dickinson

September 26, 2026 by Editors

pc

Perhaps you’d like to buy a flower?
But I could never sell.
If you would like to borrow
Until the daffodil

Unties her yellow bonnet
Beneath the village door,
Until the bees, from clover rows
Their hock and sherry draw,

Why, I will lend until just then,
But not an hour more!

Read all of Emily Dickinson's poems · About Emily Dickinson

More by Emily Dickinson

  • Presentiment Is That Long Shadow On The Lawn
  • Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers
  • So Bashful When I Spied Her
  • The Bee Is Not Afraid Of Me
  • The Brain Within Its Groove

Write poetry? Submit your poem to Poetry Catalog

Share this:

  • Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
  • Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest

Related

Filed Under: Poems

Get Every Post In Your Inbox 😳

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
(This is not the newsletter.)

Primary Sidebar

Never Miss A Poem (Newsletter)

Be Social

  • X
  • Facebook

Top Posts & Pages

  • Poetry Submission Deadlines October 2026
    Poetry Submission Deadlines October 2026
  • Poetry Submission Deadlines November 2026
    Poetry Submission Deadlines November 2026
  • Behind the dreamy rainbow, By: Pawel Markiewicz
    Behind the dreamy rainbow, By: Pawel Markiewicz
  • Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?, By: William Shakespeare
    Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?, By: William Shakespeare
  • The Song Of The Children, By: G.K. Chesterton
    The Song Of The Children, By: G.K. Chesterton
  • Bothwell Castle, By: William Wordsworth
    Bothwell Castle, By: William Wordsworth
  • By The Seashore, Isle Of Man, By: William Wordsworth
    By The Seashore, Isle Of Man, By: William Wordsworth
  • Forbidden Fruit. I, By: Emily Dickinson
    Forbidden Fruit. I, By: Emily Dickinson
  • Art On Paper, By: Mary Bone
    Art On Paper, By: Mary Bone
  • A Poison Tree, By: William Blake
    A Poison Tree, By: William Blake

Advertising/Subscribing = Loving

Buy Me A Coffee

Footer

Made with ❤ in Lubbock, TX.

Public Domain Poetry

Poetry Catalog Sponsors

Haiku Examples

Search

Copyright © 2026 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in