The stem of a departed Flower by Emily Dickinson

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[David Preest:
This poem is most of a letter (L684) to Mrs Tuckerman.
It was sent on the first day of 1881, as Emily introduces
the poem with the words, ‘”Yesterday” was a Year ago,
and yet…,’ with these words leading straight into the poem.
The letter then ends with the words ‘Thank you for the lovely Love.’
Perhaps Mrs Tuckerman had sent Emily the New Year gift
of a flower, and Emily is suggesting that just as the flower,
now cut and departed from the place where it was growing,
still silently proclaims that it was once part of ‘an Emerald Court,’
in the same way the old year, though now cut away and departed,
is still a silent bearer of memories of the ‘Emerald Court’
parts of it.]

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The stem of a departed Flower by Emily Dickinson

The stem of a departed Flower         
Has still a silent rank.             
The Bearer from an Emerald Court      
Of a Despatch of Pink.