Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love.
Walt Whitman’s expressed how in the season of spring and makes him feel as though hey, Trinity is being brought to him, the drooping star reminds him of his fellow friend, who he is mourning for. The lilac blooming meant a lot to him.
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Whitman explains that he’s morning at night
He longer must - than I - For I have but the power to kill, Without - the power to die -
Dickinson is indicating that she must protect the owner and that she may need to kill to protect him because she has the power to