Source: Project Gutenberg Dickinson series hosted as poems-of-emily-dickinson Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12242 Public domain basis: Dickinson poems from the 1890–1896 series publications; US public domain. Coverage: Complete individual poem extracted from parent edition poems-of-emily-dickinson at bytes 98582-98832; checksum 91685ebb77bdcf06a15db3354ced938f9df70979512ee0980dc075f16a195736. # The wind begun to rock the grass The wind begun to rock the grass With threatening tunes and low, -- He flung a menace at the earth, A menace at the sky. The leaves unhooked themselves from trees And started all abroad; The dust did scoop itself like hands And throw away the road.