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Poem in the 1890 First Series, identified here by its opening line

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Bees, butterflies, woods, playful belonging, joy and small-scale attention to nonhuman life.

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“The bee is not afraid of me, I know the butterfly; The pretty people in the woods Receive me cordially.”

Emily Dickinson · The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me — Emily Dickinson · 1890

The speaker imagines an easy welcome among bees, butterflies and woodland life, turning attention to small creatures into a playful form of belonging in nature.

Source note: Poem in Poems: First Series (1890), represented as “The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me” for source disambiguation; Project Gutenberg #12242. The title is an editorial first-line identifier.

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