Nobody Knows This Little Rose by Emily Dickinson

Nobody knows this little Rose --
It might a pilgrim be
Did I not take it from the ways
And lift it up to thee.
Only a Bee will miss it --
Only a Butterfly,
Hastening from far journey --
On its breast to lie --
Only a Bird will wonder --
Only a Breeze will sigh --
Ah Little Rose -- how easy
For such as thee to die!

      
       This is a poem about life and death. The rose is life, and in life, we go through many hard times and obstacles. We give everything we have to life and yet not everyone sees it. The people that care will notice and appreciate you through everything. The bee and butterfly represent those people. They need the rose and the people that need you will love and cherish you. On the other hand, the bird and breeze are the people that don't know you. They might wonder about you, but they will pass by like a bird or a breeze. Hastening from a far journey says that we've gone through so much in our lives just to lay it all down and die. According to the poem, dying is not a big deal because the people that cared will still be there and those who didn't care will just go on not caring. You give all you have to the world, but the whole world doesn't acknowledge you.