English Poetry Library/Emily Dickinson/And this of all my HopesAnd this of all my HopesEmily Dickinson·1830–1886Lines:8And this of all my HopesThis, is the silent endBountiful colored, my Morning roseEarly and sere, its end Never Bud from a StemStepped with so gay a FootNever a Worm so confidentBored at so brave a Root