EMILY DICKINSON
POEMS
- Bibliographic Record
- Frontmatter
- Prelude
- Preface
Contents
- Book I. Life.
- Real Riches ('T is little I could care for pearls)
- "Superiority to Fate"
- Hope (Hope is a subtle glutton)
- Forbidden Fruit (1) (Forbidden fruit a flavor has)
- Forbidden Fruit (2) (Heaven is what I cannot reach)
- A Word (A word is dead)
- "To venerate the simple days"
- Life's Trades (It 's such a little thing to weep)
- "Drowning is not so pitiful"
- "How still the bells in steeples stand"
- "If the foolish call them 'flowers'"
- A Syllable (Could mortal lip divine)
- Parting (My life closed twice before its close)
- Aspiration (We never know how high we are)
- The Inevitable (While I was fearing it, it came)
- A Book (There is no frigate like a book)
- "Who has not found the heaven below"
- A Portrait (A face devoid of love or grace)
- "I had a Guinea Golden"
- Saturday Afternoon (From all the jails the boys and girls)
- "Few get enough,--enough is one"
- "Upon the gallows hung a wretch"
- The Lost Thought (I felt a clearing in my mind)
- Reticence (The reticent volcano keeps)
- With Flowers (If recollecting were forgetting)
- "The farthest thunder that I heard"
- "On the bleakness of my lot"
- Contrast (A door just opened on a street)
- Friends (Are friends delight or pain)
- Fire (Ashes denote that fire was)
- A Man (Fate slew him, but he did not drop)
- Ventures (Finite to fail, but infinite to venture)
- Griefs (I measure every grief I meet)
- "I have a king who does not speak"
- Disenchantment (It dropped so low in my regard)
- Lost Faith (To lose one's faith surpasses)
- Lost Joy (I had a daily bliss)
- "I worked for chaff, and earning wheat"
- "Life, and Death, and Giants"
- Alpine Glow (Our lives are Swiss)
- Remembrance (Remembrance has a rear and front)
- "To hang our head ostensibly"
- The Brain (The brain is wider than the sky)
- "The bone that has no marrow"
- What soft, cherubic creatures"
- Desire (Who never wanted,--maddest joy)
- Philosophy (It might be easier)
- Power (You cannot put a fire out)
- "A modest lot, a fame petite"
- "Is bliss, then, such abyss"
- Experience (I stepped from plank to plank)
- Thanksgiving Day (One day is there of the series)
- Childish Griefs (Softened by Time's consummate plush)
- Book II. Love.
- Consecration (Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it)
- Love's Humility (My worthiness is all my doubt)
- Love (Love is anterior to life)
- Satisfied (One blessing had I, than the rest)
- With a Flower (When roses cease to bloom, dear)
- Song (Summer for thee grant I may be)
- Loyalty (Split the lark and you 'll find the music)
- "To lose thee, sweeter than to gain"
- "Poor little heart!"
- Forgotten (There is a word)
- "I 've got an arrow here"
- The Master (He fumbles at your spirit)
- "Heart, we will forget him!"
- "Father, I bring thee not myself"
- "We outgrow love, like other things"
- "Not with a club the heart is broken"
- Who? (My friend must be a bird)
- "He touched me, so I live to know"
- Dreams (Let me not mar that perfect dream)
- Numen Lumen (I live with him, I see his face)
- Longing (I envy seas whereon he rides)
- Wedded (A solemn thing it was, I said)
- Book III. Nature.
- Nature's Changes (The springtime's pallid landscape)
- The Tulip (She slept beneath a tree)
- "A light exists in spring"
- The Waking Year (A lady red upon the hill)
- To March (Dear March, come in!)
- March (We like March, his shoes are purple)
- Dawn (Not knowing when the dawn will come)
- "A murmur in the trees to note"
- "Morning is the place for dew"
- "To my quick ears the leaves conferred"
- A Rose (A sepal, petal, and a thorn)
- "High from the earth I heard a bird"
- Cobwebs (The spider as an artist)
- A Well (What mystery pervades a well!)
- "To make a prairie it takes a clover"
- The Wind (It 's like the light)
- "A dew sufficed itself"
- The Woodpecker (His bill an auger is)
- A Snake (Sweet is the swamp with its secrets)
- "Could I but ride indefinite"
- The Moon (The moon was but a chin of gold)
- The Bat (The bat is dun with wrinkled wings)
- The Balloon (You've seen balloons set, have n't you?)
- Evening (The cricket sang)
- Cocoon (Drab habitation of whom?)
- Sunset (A sloop of amber slips away)
- Aurora (Of bronze and blaze)
- The Coming of Night (How the old mountains drip with sunset)
- Aftermath (The murmuring of bees has ceased)
- Book IV. Time and Eternity.
- "This world is not conclusion"
- "We learn in the retreating"
- "They say that 'time assuages'"
- "We cover thee, sweet face"
- Ending (That is solemn we have ended)
- "The stimulus, beyond the grave"
- "Given in marriage unto thee"
- "That such have died enables us"
- "They won't frown always,--some sweet day"
- Immortality (It is an honorable thought)
- "The distance that the dead have gone"
- "How dare the robins sing"
- Death (Death is like the insect)
- Unwarned ('T is sunrise, little maid, hast thou)
- "Each that we lose takes part of us"
- "Not any higher stands the grave"
- Asleep (As far from pity as complaint)
- The Spirit ('T is whiter than an Indian pipe)
- The Monument (She laid her docile crescent down)
- "Bless God, he went as soldiers"
- "Immortal is an ample word"
- "Where every bird is bold to go"
- "The grave my little cottage is"
- "This was in the white of the year"
- "Sweet hours have perished here"
- "Me! Come! My dazzled face"
- Invisible (From us she wandered now a year)
- "I wish I knew that woman's name"
- Trying to Forget (Bereaved of all, I went abroad)
- "I felt a funeral in my brain"
- "I meant to find her when I came"
- Waiting (I sing to use the waiting)
- "A sickness of this world it most occasions"
- "Superfluous were the sun"
- "So proud she was to die"
- Farewell (Tie the strings to my life, my Lord)
- "The dying need but little, dear"
- Dead (There 's something quieter than sleep)
- "The soul should always stand ajar"
- "Three weeks passed since I had seen her"
- "I breathed enough to learn the trick"
- "I wonder if the sepulchre"
- Joy in Death (If tolling bell I ask the cause)
- "If I may have it when it 's dead"
- "Before the ice is in the pools"
- Dying (I heard a fly buzz when I died)
- "Adrift! A little boat adrift!"
- "There 's been a death in the opposite house"
- "We never know we go,--when we are going"
- The Soul's Storm (It struck me every day)
- "Water is taught by thirst"
- Thirst (We thirst at fast,--'t is Nature's act)
- "A clock stopped--not the mantel's"
- Charlotte Brontë's Grave (All overgrown by cunning moss)
- "A toad can die of light!"
- "Far from love the Heavenly Father"
- Sleeping (A long, long sleep, a famous sleep)
- Retrospect ('T was just this time last year I died)
- Eternity (On this wondrous sea)
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