like smiling

Robert Payton-Reid (1859-1945)

Summer's Day in the Flower Garden

…like smiling May crowned with flowers…

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mrs. A.P. Strong, February 23, 1845

…There has been frost enough. We must have summer now, and “whole legions” of daisies.

Emily Dickinson, from a letter c. 1858