EMILY DICKINSON

POEMS


Bibliographic Record
Frontmatter
Prelude
Preface


Contents


Book I. Life.

  1. Real Riches ('T is little I could care for pearls)
  2. "Superiority to Fate"
  3. Hope (Hope is a subtle glutton)
  4. Forbidden Fruit (1) (Forbidden fruit a flavor has)
  5. Forbidden Fruit (2) (Heaven is what I cannot reach)
  6. A Word (A word is dead)
  7. "To venerate the simple days"
  8. Life's Trades (It 's such a little thing to weep)
  9. "Drowning is not so pitiful"
  10. "How still the bells in steeples stand"
  11. "If the foolish call them 'flowers'"
  12. A Syllable (Could mortal lip divine)
  13. Parting (My life closed twice before its close)
  14. Aspiration (We never know how high we are)
  15. The Inevitable (While I was fearing it, it came)
  16. A Book (There is no frigate like a book)
  17. "Who has not found the heaven below"
  18. A Portrait (A face devoid of love or grace)
  19. "I had a Guinea Golden"
  20. Saturday Afternoon (From all the jails the boys and girls)
  21. "Few get enough,--enough is one"
  22. "Upon the gallows hung a wretch"
  23. The Lost Thought (I felt a clearing in my mind)
  24. Reticence (The reticent volcano keeps)
  25. With Flowers (If recollecting were forgetting)
  26. "The farthest thunder that I heard"
  27. "On the bleakness of my lot"
  28. Contrast (A door just opened on a street)
  29. Friends (Are friends delight or pain)
  30. Fire (Ashes denote that fire was)
  31. A Man (Fate slew him, but he did not drop)
  32. Ventures (Finite to fail, but infinite to venture)
  33. Griefs (I measure every grief I meet)
  34. "I have a king who does not speak"
  35. Disenchantment (It dropped so low in my regard)
  36. Lost Faith (To lose one's faith surpasses)
  37. Lost Joy (I had a daily bliss)
  38. "I worked for chaff, and earning wheat"
  39. "Life, and Death, and Giants"
  40. Alpine Glow (Our lives are Swiss)
  41. Remembrance (Remembrance has a rear and front)
  42. "To hang our head ostensibly"
  43. The Brain (The brain is wider than the sky)
  44. "The bone that has no marrow"
  45. What soft, cherubic creatures"
  46. Desire (Who never wanted,--maddest joy)
  47. Philosophy (It might be easier)
  48. Power (You cannot put a fire out)
  49. "A modest lot, a fame petite"
  50. "Is bliss, then, such abyss"
  51. Experience (I stepped from plank to plank)
  52. Thanksgiving Day (One day is there of the series)
  53. Childish Griefs (Softened by Time's consummate plush)

Book II. Love.

  1. Consecration (Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it)
  2. Love's Humility (My worthiness is all my doubt)
  3. Love (Love is anterior to life)
  4. Satisfied (One blessing had I, than the rest)
  5. With a Flower (When roses cease to bloom, dear)
  6. Song (Summer for thee grant I may be)
  7. Loyalty (Split the lark and you 'll find the music)
  8. "To lose thee, sweeter than to gain"
  9. "Poor little heart!"
  10. Forgotten (There is a word)
  11. "I 've got an arrow here"
  12. The Master (He fumbles at your spirit)
  13. "Heart, we will forget him!"
  14. "Father, I bring thee not myself"
  15. "We outgrow love, like other things"
  16. "Not with a club the heart is broken"
  17. Who? (My friend must be a bird)
  18. "He touched me, so I live to know"
  19. Dreams (Let me not mar that perfect dream)
  20. Numen Lumen (I live with him, I see his face)
  21. Longing (I envy seas whereon he rides)
  22. Wedded (A solemn thing it was, I said)

Book III. Nature.

  1. Nature's Changes (The springtime's pallid landscape)
  2. The Tulip (She slept beneath a tree)
  3. "A light exists in spring"
  4. The Waking Year (A lady red upon the hill)
  5. To March (Dear March, come in!)
  6. March (We like March, his shoes are purple)
  7. Dawn (Not knowing when the dawn will come)
  8. "A murmur in the trees to note"
  9. "Morning is the place for dew"
  10. "To my quick ears the leaves conferred"
  11. A Rose (A sepal, petal, and a thorn)
  12. "High from the earth I heard a bird"
  13. Cobwebs (The spider as an artist)
  14. A Well (What mystery pervades a well!)
  15. "To make a prairie it takes a clover"
  16. The Wind (It 's like the light)
  17. "A dew sufficed itself"
  18. The Woodpecker (His bill an auger is)
  19. A Snake (Sweet is the swamp with its secrets)
  20. "Could I but ride indefinite"
  21. The Moon (The moon was but a chin of gold)
  22. The Bat (The bat is dun with wrinkled wings)
  23. The Balloon (You've seen balloons set, have n't you?)
  24. Evening (The cricket sang)
  25. Cocoon (Drab habitation of whom?)
  26. Sunset (A sloop of amber slips away)
  27. Aurora (Of bronze and blaze)
  28. The Coming of Night (How the old mountains drip with sunset)
  29. Aftermath (The murmuring of bees has ceased)

Book IV. Time and Eternity.

  1. "This world is not conclusion"
  2. "We learn in the retreating"
  3. "They say that 'time assuages'"
  4. "We cover thee, sweet face"
  5. Ending (That is solemn we have ended)
  6. "The stimulus, beyond the grave"
  7. "Given in marriage unto thee"
  8. "That such have died enables us"
  9. "They won't frown always,--some sweet day"
  10. Immortality (It is an honorable thought)
  11. "The distance that the dead have gone"
  12. "How dare the robins sing"
  13. Death (Death is like the insect)
  14. Unwarned ('T is sunrise, little maid, hast thou)
  15. "Each that we lose takes part of us"
  16. "Not any higher stands the grave"
  17. Asleep (As far from pity as complaint)
  18. The Spirit ('T is whiter than an Indian pipe)
  19. The Monument (She laid her docile crescent down)
  20. "Bless God, he went as soldiers"
  21. "Immortal is an ample word"
  22. "Where every bird is bold to go"
  23. "The grave my little cottage is"
  24. "This was in the white of the year"
  25. "Sweet hours have perished here"
  26. "Me! Come! My dazzled face"
  27. Invisible (From us she wandered now a year)
  28. "I wish I knew that woman's name"
  29. Trying to Forget (Bereaved of all, I went abroad)
  30. "I felt a funeral in my brain"
  31. "I meant to find her when I came"
  32. Waiting (I sing to use the waiting)
  33. "A sickness of this world it most occasions"
  34. "Superfluous were the sun"
  35. "So proud she was to die"
  36. Farewell (Tie the strings to my life, my Lord)
  37. "The dying need but little, dear"
  38. Dead (There 's something quieter than sleep)
  39. "The soul should always stand ajar"
  40. "Three weeks passed since I had seen her"
  41. "I breathed enough to learn the trick"
  42. "I wonder if the sepulchre"
  43. Joy in Death (If tolling bell I ask the cause)
  44. "If I may have it when it 's dead"
  45. "Before the ice is in the pools"
  46. Dying (I heard a fly buzz when I died)
  47. "Adrift! A little boat adrift!"
  48. "There 's been a death in the opposite house"
  49. "We never know we go,--when we are going"
  50. The Soul's Storm (It struck me every day)
  51. "Water is taught by thirst"
  52. Thirst (We thirst at fast,--'t is Nature's act)
  53. "A clock stopped--not the mantel's"
  54. Charlotte Brontë's Grave (All overgrown by cunning moss)
  55. "A toad can die of light!"
  56. "Far from love the Heavenly Father"
  57. Sleeping (A long, long sleep, a famous sleep)
  58. Retrospect ('T was just this time last year I died)
  59. Eternity (On this wondrous sea)


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