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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

1830 - 1886Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Evidence suggests that Dickinson lived much of her life in isolation. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a penchant for white clothing and was known for her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, to even leave her bedroom. Dickinson never married, and most friendships between her and others depended entirely upon correspondence.Read more on Wikipedia

Poems

"A Little Road Not Made Of Man,"
"A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest,"
"Alter? When The Hills Do."
"Angels In The Early Morning"
"As Children Bid The Guest Good-Night,"
"Belshazzar Had A Letter,"
"Delight Becomes Pictorial"
"Glee! The Great Storm Is Over!"
"Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart,"
"I Asked No Other Thing,"
"I Had No Time To Hate, Because"
"I Have No Life But This,"
"I Know A Place Where Summer Strives"
"I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed,"
"If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking,"
"If I Should Die,"
"If You Were Coming In The Fall,"
"Is Heaven A Physician?"
"Much Madness Is Divinest Sense"
"New Feet Within My Garden Go,"
"On This Long Storm The Rainbow Rose,"
"One Dignity Delays For All,"
"Our Share Of Night To Bear"
"Perhaps You'D Like To Buy A Flower?"
"Presentiment Is That Long Shadow On The Lawn"
"Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers,"
"So Bashful When I Spied Her,"
"The Bee Is Not Afraid Of Me,"
"The Brain Within Its Groove"
"The Heart Asks Pleasure First,"
"The One That Could Repeat The Summer Day"
"The Pedigree Of Honey"
"There's A Certain Slant Of Light,"
"To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave,"
"Two Swimmers Wrestled On The Spar"
"Upon The Gallows Hung A Wretch,"
"Whether My Bark Went Down At Sea,"
"Who Robbed The Woods,"
"Your Riches Taught Me Poverty."
A Book.
A Charm Invests A Face
A Clock Stopped -- Not The Mantel's;
A Country Burial.
A Day.
A Death-Blow Is A Life-Blow To Some
A Dew Sufficed Itself
A Light Exists In Spring
A Man.
A Modest Lot, A Fame Petite,
A Murmur In The Trees To Note,
A Poor Torn Heart, A Tattered Heart,
A Portrait.
A Prayer.
A Rose.
A Service Of Song.
A Shady Friend For Torrid Days
A Sickness Of This World It Most Occasions
A Snake.
A Syllable.
A Tempest.
A Thought Went Up My Mind To-Day
A Throe Upon The Features
A Thunder-Storm.
A Toad Can Die Of Light!
A Train Went Through A Burial Gate,
A Well.
A Word.
Adrift! A Little Boat Adrift!
Afraid? Of Whom Am I Afraid?
Aftermath.
Almost!
Along The Potomac.
Alpine Glow.
Apocalypse.
Apotheosis.
April.
As By The Dead We Love To Sit,
As Imperceptibly As Grief
Asleep.
Aspiration.
Astra Castra.
At Half-Past Three A Single Bird
At Home.
At Least To Pray Is Left, Is Left.
At Length.
Aurora.
Autumn.
Beclouded.
Before The Ice Is In The Pools,
Bequest.
Bless God, He Went As Soldiers,
By The Sea.
Called Back.
Charlotte Bront'S Grave.
Childish Griefs.
Choice.
Cobwebs.
Cocoon.
Compensation.
Consecration.
Contrast.
Could I But Ride Indefinite,
Dawn.
Day's Parlor.
Dead.
Death And Life.
Death Is A Dialogue Between
Death.
Deed.
Desire.
Disenchantment.
Dreams.
Drowning Is Not So Pitiful
Dying.
Each That We Lose Takes Part Of Us;
Emancipation.
Ending.
Enough.
Epitaph.
Escape.
Essential Oils Are Wrung:
Eternity.
Evening.
Except The Heaven Had Come So Near,
Except To Heaven, She Is Nought;
Exclusion.
Experience.
Experiment To Me
Faith Is A Fine Invention
Far From Love The Heavenly Father
Farewell.
Father, I Bring Thee Not Myself,
Few Get Enough
Fire.
Following.
Forbidden Fruit. I.
Forbidden Fruit. II.
Forgotten.
Frequently The Woods Are Pink,
Friends.
Fringed Gentian.
From The Chrysalis.
Ghosts.
Given In Marriage Unto Thee,
Going To Heaven!
Going.
Gone.
Good Night! Which Put The Candle Out?
Gossip.
Griefs.
He Put The Belt Around My Life,
He Touched Me, So I Live To Know
Heart Not So Heavy As Mine,
Heart, We Will Forget Him!
High From The Earth I Heard A Bird;
Hope.
How Dare The Robins Sing,
How Still The Bells In Steeples Stand,
Hunger.
I Breathed Enough To Learn The Trick,
I Bring An Unaccustomed Wine
I Died For Beauty, But Was Scarce
I Felt A Funeral In My Brain,
I Found The Phrase To Every Thought
I Gained It So,
I Had A Guinea Golden.
I Have A King Who Does Not Speak;
I Have Not Told My Garden Yet,
I Know That He Exists
I Lived On Dread; To Those Who Know
I Many Times Thought Peace Had Come,
I Meant To Find Her When I Came;
I Never Lost As Much But Twice,
I Never Saw A Moor,
I Noticed People Disappeared,
I Read My Sentence Steadily,
I Reason, Earth Is Short,
I Shall Know Why, When Time Is Over,
I Think Just How My Shape Will Rise
I Went To Heaven,
I Went To Thank Her,
I Wish I Knew That Woman's Name,
I Wonder If The Sepulchre
I Worked For Chaff, And Earning Wheat
I'm Nobody!
I've Got An Arrow Here;
I've Seen A Dying Eye
If Anybody's Friend Be Dead,
If I May Have It When It's Dead
If I Should'nt Be Alive
If The Foolish Call Them 'Flowers,'
Immortal Is An Ample Word
Immortality.
In A Library.
In Lands I Never Saw, They Say,
In Shadow.
In The Garden.
In Vain.
Indian Summer.
Invisible.
Is Bliss, Then, Such Abyss
It Can't Be Summer,
It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up,
It Was Too Late For Man,
It's All I Have To Bring To-Day,
Joy In Death.
Lay This Laurel On The One
Let Down The Bars, O Death!
Life's Trades.
Life, And Death, And Giants
Like Mighty Footlights Burned The Red
Longing.
Look Back On Time With Kindly Eyes,
Lost Faith.
Lost Joy.
Lost.
Love's Baptism.
Love's Humility.
Love.
Loyalty.
March.
May-Flower.
Me! Come! My Dazzled Face
Melodies Unheard.
Memorials.
Mine.
Morning Is The Place For Dew,
Morns Like These We Parted;
Mother Nature.
My Country's Wardrobe.
My Cricket.
My Nosegays Are For Captives
My Rose.
Nature Rarer Uses Yellow
Nature's Changes.
Not Any Higher Stands The Grave
Not With A Club The Heart Is Broken,
November.
Numen Lumen.
Old-Fashioned.
On The Bleakness Of My Lot
Out Of The Morning.
Parting.
Philosophy.
Playmates.
Pompless No Life Can Pass Away;
Poor Little Heart!
Portraits Are To Daily Faces
Possession.
Power.
Prayer.
Precedence.
Problems.
Proof.
Psalm Of The Day.
Purple Clover.
Real Riches.
Real.
Refuge.
Remembrance.
Remorse.
Renunciation.
Requiem.
Resurgam.
Resurrection.
Reticence.
Retrospect.
Returning.
Rouge Et Noir.
Rouge Gagne.
Satisfied.
Saturday Afternoon.
Saved!
Secrets.
Setting Sail.
She Sweeps With Many-Colored Brooms,
She Went As Quiet As The Dew
Shipwreck.
Sight.
Simplicity.
Sleep Is Supposed To Be,
Sleeping.
So Proud She Was To Die
Some, Too Fragile For Winter Winds,
Song.
Storm.
Success.
Summer Shower.
Summer's Armies.
Summer's Obsequies.
Sunset.
Superfluous Were The Sun
Superiority To Fate.
Surgeons Must Be Very Careful
Surrender.
Suspense.
Sweet Hours Have Perished Here;
T Was Later When The Summer Went
Talk With Prudence To A Beggar
Thanksgiving Day.
That Such Have Died Enables Us
The Balloon.
The Bat.
The Battle-Field.
The Bee.
The Blue Jay.
The Bluebird.
The Bone That Has No Marrow;
The Book Of Martyrs.
The Brain.
The Bustle In A House
The Butterfiy's Assumption-Gown,
The Butterfly's Day.
The Chariot.
The Coming Of Night.
The Contract.
The Daisy Follows Soft The Sun,
The Distance That The Dead Have Gone
The Duel.
The Dying Need But Little, Dear,
The Farthest Thunder That I Heard
The First Lesson.
The Forgotten Grave.
The Funeral.
The Goal.
The Grass.
The Grave My Little Cottage Is,
The Hemlock.
The Humming-Bird.
The Inevitable.
The Journey.
The Juggler Of Day.
The Last Night That She Lived,
The Letter.
The Lonely House.
The Lost Jewel.
The Lost Thought.
The Lovers.
The Martyrs.
The Master.
The Monument.
The Moon Is Distant From The Sea,
The Moon.
The Mountain.
The Mushroom.
The Mystery Of Pain.
The Nearest Dream Recedes, Unrealized.
The Only Ghost I Ever Saw
The Oriole's Secret.
The Oriole.
The Outlet.
The Past.
The Preacher.
The Railway Train.
The Rat.
The Return.
The Robin.
The Sea Of Sunset.
The Sea.
The Secret.
The Shelter.
The Show.
The Sleeping Flowers.
The Snake.
The Snow.
The Soul Should Always Stand Ajar,
The Soul Unto Itself
The Soul's Storm.
The Spider.
The Spirit.
The Stimulus, Beyond The Grave
The Storm.
The Sun's Wooing.
The Test.
The Thought Beneath So Slight A Film
The Tulip.
The Waking Year.
The Way I Read A Letter's This:
The White Heat.
The Wife.
The Wind.
The Wlnd's Visit.
The Woodpecker.
Their Height In Heaven Comforts Not,
There Is A Shame Of Nobleness
There's Been A Death In The Opposite House
They Say That 'Time Assuages,
They Won't Frown Always, -- Some Sweet Day"
Thirst.
This Merit Hath The Worst,
This Was In The White Of The Year,
This World Is Not Conclusion;
Three Weeks Passed Since I Had Seen Her,
Till The End.
Time's Lesson.
To Hang Our Head Ostensibly,
To Help Our Bleaker Parts
To Know Just How He Suffered Would Be Dear;"
To Learn The Transport By The Pain,
To Lose Thee, Sweeter Than To Gain
To Make A Prairie It Takes A Clover And One Bee,"
To March.
To My Quick Ear The Leaves Conferred;
To Venerate The Simple Days
Too Late.
Too Much.
Transplanted.
Triumph.
Triumphant.
Troubled About Many Things.
Trying To Forget.
Two Voyagers.
Two Worlds.
Undue Significance A Starving Man Attaches
Unreturning.
Unto My Books So Good To Turn
Unwarned.
Vanished.
Ventures.
Victory Comes Late,
Void.
Waiting.
Water Is Taught By Thirst;
We Cover Thee, Sweet Face.
We Learn In The Retreating
We Never Know We Go, -- When We Are Going"
We Outgrow Love Like Other Things
We Play At Paste,
Wedded.
What If I Say I Shall Not Wait?
What Inn Is This
What Soft, Cherubic Creatures
When I Hoped I Feared,
Where Every Bird Is Bold To Go,
Who Has Not Found The Heaven Below
Who?
Why?
Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
With A Flower.
With Flowers.