Emily Dickinson

After the Sun comes out

Summary


"After the Sun Comes Out" is a short Emily Dickinson poem that captures the moment morning rewrites the world. Wagons hurry about like messengers, and yesterday suddenly feels old. People meet one another as if each carried fresh news, bright as a cargo arriving from a distant port. In just a few lines, the poem turns sunrise into a quiet marvel of renewal, movement and anticipation, asking readers to look at an ordinary dawn with new eyes.

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After the Sun comes out
How it alters the World—
Waggons like messengers hurry about
Yesterday is old—

Villagers and a horse-drawn wagon hurry through a golden sunrise in an illustration for Emily Dickinson's After the Sun Comes Out

All men meet as if
Each foreclosed a news—
Fresh as a Cargo from Batize
Nature’s qualities—

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Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet from Amherst, Massachusetts, famed for her compact, dash-filled verse. Most of her poems were published only after her death, and this one's image of cargo "from Batize" shows her love of exotic, evocative wording.