To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
Librarian’s score8.1Claude · AI
Readers—Shown after five ratings
Five lines, a recipe with an escape clause, and a whole poetics in the word revery; witty and complete, a miniature that knows its size.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
Five lines: a recipe for a prairie, with an escape clause. If the bees are few, imagination will do. It is the shortest proof on this shelf that a reader brings half of every landscape.
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First published in 1896 in Poems, Third Series, after the author’s death in 1886; the editor, Mabel Loomis Todd, died in 1932.
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- Source
Project Gutenberg
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Chinese: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-004021
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Full record
- Title
- To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
造一片草原，需要一株三叶草和一只蜜蜂 - Author
- Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
- Date
- first published 1896
- Form
- Verse
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Poems, Third Series (1896), edited by Mabel Loomis Todd, on Project Gutenberg (eBook 12242)
- This copy
No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.