It’s All I Have to Bring Today
This weekend, our Department of Emergency Medicine lost a beloved friend and colleague. Today's poem by Emily Dickinson has many interpretations, but to me it reads as a poem of comfort. In it, she offers her heart humbly to the reader, along with the beauty of the natural world. The poem has the meter of a hymn, with the syllable count 8/6 alternating by line, much like Amazing Grace and other traditional hymns. Wishing comfort and grace to each of us today.
It's All I Have To Bring Today
by Emily Dickinson
It's all I have to bring today--
This, and my heart beside--
This, and my heart, and all the fields--
And all the meadows wide--
Be sure you count, should I forget
Some one the sum could tell--
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.
