Extrinsic to Attention [13] Attired to defy, [6] Too intimate with Joy -- [14] Obliged to be inferred.

[4] The Bird of Birds is gone -- [22] Amenable to Law -- [10] Of impudent Habiliment [5] Her Sorcerer withdrawn! [24] From every other Bird [2]
Poem 1279 [F1348] "The Way to know the Bobolink" Analysis by David Preest [Poem]

The bobolink of poems 324 and 755 returns. We can distinguish the bobolink, this 'Bird of Birds,' if we look at the reasons for the joy which he gives us. He looks so 'impudent' and at times majestic in his mating 'Habiliment' of yellow nape, black feathers on top and white underneath, and he behaves as a complete rebel, no more law-abiding than heretical exhilaration or Puck of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream . He is a flipperty-gibbet, a happy soul, who sings songs of compliments to creation until called away on business of his own. Precisely as the Joy of him -- [3] How nullified the Meadow -- [23]
"The Way to know the Bobolink" By Emily Dickinson [Analysis]

Or Puck's Apostacy. [12]

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Until allured away [16] Or, happily, Renown -- [20] Of Sentiments seditious [9] By Contrast certifying [21] As Heresies of Transport [11] He compliments existence [15] Or unforeseen aggrandizement [19] The Way to know the Bobolink [1] At times to Majesty. [8] By Seasons or his Children -- [17] Adult and urgent grown -- [18] Impertinence subordinate [7]