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Critical Analysis of Famous Poems by Emily Dickinson

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  • "Faith" Is A Fine Invention
  • "Heaven" Has Different Signs&Mdash;To Me
  • "Heaven"—Is What I Cannot Reach!
  • "Houses"&Mdash;So The Wise Men Tell Me
  • "I Want"&Mdash;It Pleaded&Mdash;All Its Life
  • "Nature" Is What We See
  • "Unto Me?" I Do Not Know You
  • "Why Do I Love" You, Sir?
  • "470"
  • 'Arcturus' Is His Other Name
  • 'Faithful To The End' Amended
  • 'Morning' Means 'Milking' To The Farmer
  • 'Speech'—is A Prank Of Parliament
  • 'They Have Not Chosen Me,' He Said
  • 'Tis Anguish Grander Than Delight
  • 'Tis Customary As We Part
  • 'Tis Good&Mdash;The Looking Back On Grief
  • 'Tis Little I—could Care For Pearls
  • 'Tis Not That Dying Hurts Us So
  • 'Tis One By One — The Father Counts
  • 'Tis Opposites&Mdash;Entice
  • 'Tis So Appalling&Mdash;It Exhilarates
  • 'Tis So Much Joy!
  • 'Tis Sunrise&Mdash;Little Maid&Mdash;Hast Thou
  • 'Tis True—they Shut Me In The Cold
  • 'Tomorrow' - whose location
  • 'Twas A Long Parting&Mdash;But The Time
  • 'Twas comfort in her Dying Room
  • 'Twas Just This Time, Last Year, I Died
  • 'Twas Like A Maelstrom, With A Notch
  • 'Twas Love—not Me
  • 'Twas The Old—road—through Pain
  • 'Twas Warm—at First—like Us
  • 'Twould Ease—a Butterfly
  • A Bird Came Down
  • A Book
  • A Burdock&Mdash;Clawed My Gown
  • A Charm Invests A Face
  • A chilly Peace infests the Grass
  • A Clock Stopped -- Not The Mantel's
  • A Cloud Withdrew From The Sky
  • A Coffin—is A Small Domain
  • A Counterfeit - a Plated Person -
  • A Darting Fear&Mdash;A Pomp&Mdash;A Tear
  • A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!
  • A Death Blow Is A Life Blow To Some
  • A Door Just Opened On A Street
  • A Doubt If It Be Us
  • A Drop Fell On The Apple Tree
  • A Dying Tiger&Mdash;Moaned For Drink
  • A Feather From The Whippoorwill
  • A First Mute Coming
  • A Fuzzy Fellow, Without Feet
  • A Great Hope Fell
  • A Happy Lip&Mdash;Breaks Sudden
  • A House Upon The Height
  • A Lady Red&Mdash;Amid The Hill
  • A lane of Yellow led the eye
  • A Light Exists In Spring
  • A Little Bread&Mdash;A Crust&Mdash;A Crumb
  • A Little Dog That Wags His Tail
  • A Little East Of Jordan
  • A little Madness in the Spring
  • A Little Road Not Made Man
  • A Little Snow Was Here And There
  • A Long, Long Sleep, A Famous Sleep
  • A Loss Of Something Ever Felt I
  • A Man May Make A Remark
  • A Mien To Move A Queen
  • A Moth The Hue Of This
  • A Murmur In The Trees&Mdash;To Note
  • A Narrow Fellow In The Grass
  • A Nearness To Tremendousness
  • A Night&Mdash;There Lay The Days Between
  • A Pang is more conspicuous in Spring
  • A Planted Life&Mdash;Diversified
  • A Poor&Mdash;Torn Heart&Mdash;A Tattered Heart
  • A Precious—mouldering Pleasure
  • A Prison Gets To Be A Friend
  • A Route Of Evanescence
  • A Science&Mdash;So The Savants Say
  • A Secret Told
  • A Sepal, Petal, And A Thorn
  • A Shade Upon The Mind There Passes
  • A Shady Friend For Torrid Days
  • A Sickness Of This World It Most Occasions
  • A Single Screw Of Flesh
  • A Slash Of Blue
  • A Sloop of Amber slips away
  • A Solemn Thing Within The Soul
  • A Solemn Thing&Mdash;It Was&Mdash;I Said
  • A Something In A Summer's Day
  • A South Wind&Mdash;Has A Pathos
  • A Spider sewed at Night
  • A Still—volcano—life
  • A Thought Went Up My Mind To-Day
  • A Throe Upon The Features
  • A Toad Can Die Of Light!
  • A Tongue—to Tell Him I Am True!
  • A Tooth Upon Our Peace
  • A train went through a burial gate
  • A Transport One Cannot Contain
  • A Visitor In Marl
  • A Weight With Needles On The Pounds
  • A Wife&Mdash;At Daybreak I Shall Be
  • A Wind That Rose
  • A Word dropped careless on a Page
  • A Wounded Deer&Mdash;Leaps Highest
  • Abraham To Kill Him
  • Absence Disembodies—so Does Death
  • Absent Place&Mdash;An April Day
  • Adrift! A Little Boat Adrift!
  • Afraid! Of Whom Am I Afraid?
  • After A Hundred Years
  • After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes
  • Again&Mdash;His Voice Is At The Door
  • Ah, Moon—and Star!
  • Ah, Teneriffe!
  • Air has no Residence, no Neighbor
  • All But Death, Can Be Adjusted
  • All Circumstances Are The Frame
  • All Forgot For Recollecting
  • All I May, If Small
  • All Men For Honor Hardest Work
  • All Overgrown By Cunning Moss
  • All The Letters I Can Write
  • All These My Banners Be
  • Alone, I Cannot Be
  • Alter! When The Hills Do
  • Although I Put Away His Life
  • Always Mine!
  • Ambition Cannot Find Him
  • Ample Make This Bed.
  • An Altered Look About The Hills
  • An Antiquated Tree
  • An Awful Tempest Mashed The Air
  • An English Breeze
  • An Everywhere Of Silver
  • An Hour Is A Sea
  • An Ignorance A Sunset
  • And This Of All My Hopes
  • And with what body do they come
  • Angels, In The Early Morning
  • Answer July
  • Apology For Her
  • Apparently With No Surprise
  • Arcturus
  • Are Friends Delight Or Pain
  • Artists Wrestled Here!
  • As By The Dead We Love To Sit
  • As Children Bid The Guest "Good Night"
  • As Everywhere Of Silver
  • As Far From Pity, As Complaint
  • As from the earth the light Balloon
  • As Frost Is Best Conceived
  • As If I Asked A Common Alms
  • As If Some Little Arctic Flower
  • As If The Sea Should Part
  • As Imperceptibly As Grief
  • As old as Woe
  • As One Does Sickness Over
  • As Plan For Noon And Plan For Night
  • As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer
  • As subtle as tomorrow
  • As The Starved Maelstrom Laps The Navies
  • As Watchers Hang Upon The East
  • At Last, To Be Identified!
  • At Least—to Pray—is Left—is Left
  • Autumn&Mdash;Overlooked My Knitting
  • Awake Ye Muses Nine, Sing Me A Strain Divine
  • Away From Home Are Some And I—
  • Baffled For Just A Day Or Two
  • Banish Air From Air&Mdash;
  • Be Mine The Doom&Mdash;
  • Beauty&Mdash;Be Not Caused&Mdash;It Is
  • Because I Could Not Stop For Death
  • Because The Bee May Blameless Hum
  • Beclouded
  • Bee! I'M Expecting You!
  • Before He Comes We Weigh The Time!
  • Before I Got My Eye Put Out
  • Before The Ice Is In The Pools
  • Before You Thought Of Spring,
  • Behind Me Dips Eternity
  • Bereaved Of All, I Went Abroad
  • Bereavement In Their Death To Feel
  • Besides The Autumn Poets Sing
  • Besides This May
  • Best Gains—must Have The Losses' Test
  • Best Things Dwell Out Of Sight
  • Best Witchcraft is Geometry
  • Better—than Music! For I—who Heard It
  • Between My Country—and The Others
  • Bird
  • Blazing In Gold And Quenching In Purple
  • Bless God, He Went As Soldiers
  • Bloom Upon The Mountain—stated
  • Bound&Mdash;A Trouble
  • Bring Me The Sunset In A Cup
  • But Little Carmine Hath Her Face
  • By A Flower—by A Letter
  • By Chivalries As Tiny
  • By homely gift and hindered Words
  • By My Window Have I For Scenery
  • By Such And Such An Offering
  • By The Sea
  • Chartless
  • Civilization&Mdash;Spurns&Mdash;The Leopard!
  • Cocoon Above! Cocoon Below!
  • Color—caste—denomination
  • Come Slowly
  • Conjecturing A Climate
  • Conscious Am I In My Chamber
  • Could Hope Inspect Her Basis
  • Could I But Ride Indefinite
  • Could I—then—shut The Door
  • Could Live—did Live
  • Could mortal lip divine
  • Could—i Do More—for Thee
  • Crisis Is A Hair
  • Crumbling Is Not An Instant's Act
  • Dare You See A Soul At The White Heat?
  • Dear March - Come in
  • Death Is A Dialogue Between
  • Death is like the insect
  • Death Is Potential To That Man
  • Death Leaves Us Homesick, Who Behind
  • Death Sets A Thing Of Signigicant
  • Declaiming Waters None May Dread
  • Defrauded I A Butterfly
  • Delayed Till She Had Ceased To Know
  • Delight Becomes Pictorial
  • Delight Is As The Flight
  • Denial&Mdash;Is The Only Fact
  • Departed To The Judgment,
  • Deprived Of Other Banquet
  • Despair's Advantage Is Achieved
  • Did Our Best Moment Last
  • Did The Harebell Loose Her Girdle
  • Did We Disobey Him?
  • Did You Ever Stand In A Cavern's Mouth
  • Distrustful Of The Gentian
  • Do People Moulder Equally
  • Don'T Put Up My Thread And Needle
  • Doom Is The House Without The Door
  • Doubt Me! My Dim Companion!
  • Down Time's quaint stream
  • Drab Habitation Of Whom?
  • Drama's Vitallest Expression Is The Common Day
  • Dreams&Mdash;Are Well&Mdash;But Waking's Better
  • Dropped Into The Ether Acre
  • Drowning is not so pitiful
  • Dust Is The Only Secret
  • Dying At My Music
  • Dying! Dying In The Night!
  • Dying! To Be Afraid Of Thee
  • Each Life Converges To Some Centre
  • Each Scar I'Ll Keep For Him
  • Each Second Is The Last
  • Elysium Is As Far As To
  • Emancipation
  • Embarrassment Of One Another
  • Empty My Heart, Of Thee
  • Ended, ere it begun -
  • Endow The Living—with The Tears
  • Escape is such a thankful Word
  • Escaping Backward To Perceive
  • Essential Oils—are Wrung
  • Except The Heaven Had Come So Near
  • Except To Heaven, She Is Nought
  • Exclusion (The Soul Selects Her Own Society)
  • Exhilaration is the Breeze
  • Exhilaration—is Within
  • Expectation—is Contentment
  • Experience Is The Angled Road
  • Exultation Is The Going
  • Fairer Through Fading—as The Day
  • Faith
  • Faith—is The Pierless Bridge
  • Fame Is A Bee
  • Fame Is A Fickle Food (1659)
  • Fame Is The Tine That Scholars Leave
  • Fame Of Myself, To Justify
  • Fate Slew Him, But He Did Not Drop
  • Finding Is The First Act
  • Finite—to Fail, But Infinite To Venture
  • First Robin
  • Fitter To See Him, I May Be
  • Flowers—well—if Anybody
  • For Death—or Rather
  • For Each Ecstatic Instant
  • For Every Bird A Nest
  • For Largest Woman's Hearth I Knew
  • For This—accepted Breath
  • Forbidden Fruit A Flavor Has
  • Forever At His Side To Walk
  • Forever—it Composed Of Nows
  • Forget! The Lady With The Amulet
  • Four Trees—upon A Solitary Acre
  • Frequently The Wood Are Pink
  • From Blank To Blank
  • From Cocoon Forth A Butterfly
  • From The Chrysalis
  • From Us She Wandered Now A Year
  • Funny—to Be A Century
  • Further In Summer Than The Birds
  • Garland For Queens, May Be
  • Give Little Anguish
  • Given In Marriage Unto Thee
  • Glee—the Great Storm Is Over
  • Glory is that bright tragic thing
  • Glowing Is Her Bonnet
  • God Gave A Loaf To Every Bird,
  • God Is A Distant—stately Lover
  • God Made A Little Gentian
  • God Permit Industrious Angels
  • Going To Heaven!
  • Going To Him! Happy Letter! Tell Him--
  • Good Morning—midnight
  • Good Night! Which Put The Candle Out?
  • Good Night, Because We Must
  • Good To Hide, And Hear 'Em Hunt!
  • Gratitude—is Not The Mention
  • Great Caesar! Condescend
  • Grief Is A Mouse
  • Growth of Man - like Growth of Nature
  • Had I Not This, Or This, I Said
  • Had I Presumed To Hope
  • Had we our senses
  • Have Any Like Myself
  • Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
  • He ate and drank the precious Words
  • He Forgot—and I—remembered
  • He Fought Like Those Who'Ve Nought To Lose
  • He Found My Being—set It Up
  • He Fumbles At Your Soul
  • He Fumbles At Your Spirit
  • He Gave Away His Life
  • He Outstripped Time With But A Bout
  • He Parts Himself—like Leaves
  • He Preached Upon 'Breadth' Till It Argued Him Narrow —
  • He Put The Belt Around My Life
  • He Strained My Faith
  • He Told A Homely Tale
  • He Touched Me, So I Live To Know
  • He Was Weak, And I Was Strong—then
  • He Who In Himself Believes
  • Heart, Not So Heavy As Mine
  • Heart, We Will Forget Him
  • Heaven Has Different Signs—to Me
  • Heaven Is So Far Of The Mind
  • Heavenly Father
  • Her Breast Is Fit For Pearls
  • Her Final Summer Was It,
  • Her Grace Is All She Has&Mdash;
  • Her Smile Was Shaped Like Other Smiles
  • Her Sweet Turn To Leave The Homestead
  • Her Sweet Weight On My Heart A Night
  • Her&Mdash;"Last Poems"
  • Herein A Blossom Lies
  • Her—
  • High From The Earth I Heard A Bird
  • His Bill An Auger Is
  • His Feet Are Shod With Gauze
  • His Heart Was Darker Than The Starless Night
  • His voice decrepit was with Joy
  • Home
  • Hope is a strange invention
  • Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
  • Houses—so The Wise Men Tell Me—
  • How Far Is It To Heaven?
  • How firm Eternity must look
  • How fits his Umber Coat
  • How Fortunate The Grave
  • How Happy I Was If I Could Forget
  • How Happy Is The Little Stone
  • How Human Nature dotes
  • How Lonesome The Wind Must Feel Nights -
  • How Many Flowers Fail In Wood
  • How Many Times These Low Feet Staggered
  • How Noteless Men, And Pleiads, Stand
  • How Sick—to Wait—in Any Place—but Thine
  • How Slow The Wind
  • How The Old Mountains Drip With Sunset
  • How The Waters Closed Above Him
  • How Well I Knew Her Not
  • I am afraid to own a Body
  • I Am Alive - I Guess
  • I Am Ashamed—i Hide
  • I Asked No Other Thing
  • I Bet With Every Wind That Blew
  • I Breathed Enough To Learn The Trick,
  • I Bring An Unaccustomed Wine
  • I Came To Buy A Smile—today
  • I Can Wade Grief
  • I Can'T Tell You—but You Feel It
  • I Cannot Be Ashamed
  • I Cannot Buy It—'Tis Not Sold
  • I Cannot Dance Upon My Toes
  • I Cannot Live With You (No. 640)
  • I Cautious, Scanned My Little Life
  • I Could Bring You Jewels—had I A Mind To
  • I Could Die—to Know
  • I Could Not Drink It, Sweet
  • I Could Not Prove The Years Had Feet
  • I Could Suffice For Him, I Knew
  • I Cried At Pity—not At Pain
  • I Cross Till I Am Weary
  • I Died For Beauty
  • I Died For Beauty But Was Scarce
  • I Dreaded That First Robin, So
  • I Dwell In Possibility
  • I Envy Seas, Whereon He Rides
  • I Fear A Man Of Frugal Speech
  • I Felt A Cleaving In My Mind
  • I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain (280)
  • I Felt My Life With Both My Hands
  • I Found The Phrase To Every Thought
  • I Gained It So
  • I Gave Myself To Him
  • I Got So I Could Take His Name
  • I Had A Guinea Golden
  • I Had Been Hungry All The Years-
  • I Had No Cause To Be Awake
  • I Had No Time To Hate, Because
  • I Had Not Minded—walls
  • I Had Some Things That I Called Mine
  • I Had The Glory—that Will Do
  • I Have A Bird In Spring
  • I Have A King, Who Does Not Speak
  • I Have Never Seen "Volcanoes"
  • I Have No Life But This
  • I Haven'T Told My Garden Yet
  • I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died;
  • I Held A Jewel In My Fingers
  • I Hide Myself Within My Flower
  • I Keep My Pledge
  • I Know A Place Where Summer Strives
  • I Know Lives, I Could Miss
  • I Know Some Lonely Houses Off The Road
  • I Know That He Exists
  • I Know Where Wells Grow—droughtless Wells
  • I Learned—at Least—what Home Could Be
  • I Like A Look Of Agony
  • I Like To See It Lap The Miles,
  • I Live With Him—i See His Face
  • I Lived On Dread
  • I Lived On Dread; To Those Who Know
  • I Lost A World - The Other Day!
  • I Made Slow Riches But My Gain
  • I Make His Crescent Fill Or Lack
  • I Many Times Thought Peace Had Come
  • I Meant To Find Her When I Came
  • I Meant To Have But Modest Needs
  • I Measure Every Grief I Meet (561)
  • I Ment To Find Her When I Came;
  • I Met A King This Afternoon!
  • I Never Felt At Home—below
  • I Never Hear The Word 'Escape'
  • I Never Lost As Much But Twice
  • I Never Saw A Moor
  • I Never Told The Buried Gold
  • I Noticed People Disappeared
  • I Often Passed The Village
  • I Pay—in Satin Cash
  • I Play At Riches—to Appease
  • I Prayed, At First, A Little Girl
  • I Read My Sentence—steadily
  • I Reason, Earth Is Short
  • I Reckon—when I Count It All
  • I Robbed The Woods
  • I Rose—because He Sank
  • I Saw No Way—the Heavens Were Stitched
  • I Saw The Wind Within Her
  • I See Thee Better—in The Dark
  • I Send Two Sunsets
  • I Shall Keep Singing!
  • I Shall Know Why—when Time Is Over
  • I Should Have Been Too Glad, I See
  • I Should Not Dare To Leave My Friend
  • I Showed Her Heights She Never Saw
  • I Sing To Use The Waiting
  • I Sometimes Drop It, For A Quick
  • I Started Early - Took My Dog
  • I Stepped From Plank To Plank
  • I Stole Them From A Bee
  • I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed
  • I Tend My Flowers For Thee
  • I Think I Was Enchanted
  • I Think Just How My Shape Will Rise
  • I Think The Hemlock Likes To Stand
  • I Think The Longest Hour Of All
  • I Think To Live—may Be A Bliss
  • I thought the Train would never come
  • I Tie My Hat—i Crease My Shawl
  • I Took My Power In My Hand
  • I Tried To Think A Lonelier Thing
  • I Want—it Pleaded—all Its Life—
  • I Was The Slightest In The House
  • I Watched The Moon Around The House (629)
  • I Went To Heaven,--
  • I Went To Thank Her
  • I Would Distil A Cup
  • I Would Not Paint—a Picture
  • I Years Had Been From Home,
  • I'Ll Clutch—and Clutch
  • I'Ll Send The Feather From My Hat!
  • I'M
  • I'M "Wife"&Mdash;I'Ve Finished That
  • I'M Ceded—i'Ve Stopped Being Theirs
  • I'M Nobody! Who Are You?
  • I'M Saying Every Day
  • I'M Sorry For The Dead—today
  • I'M The Little
  • I'M The Little "Heart's Ease"
  • I'Ve Heard An Organ Talk, Sometimes
  • I'Ve Known A Heaven, Like A Tent
  • I'Ve None To Tell Me To But Thee
  • I'Ve Nothing Else—to Bring, You Know
  • I'Ve Seen A Dying Eye
  • Ideals Are The Fairly Oil
  • If all the griefs I am to have
  • If Any Sink, Assure That This, Now Standing
  • If Anybody's Friend Be Dead
  • If Blame Be My Side—forfeit Me
  • If Ever The Lid Gets Off My Head
  • If He Dissolve—then—there Is Nothing
  • If He Were Living—dare I Ask
  • If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking,
  • If I Could Bribe Them By A Rose
  • If I May Have It, When It's Dead
  • If I Should Cease To Bring A Rose
  • If I Should Die
  • If I Shouldn'T Be Alive
  • If I'M Lost&Mdash;Now
  • If It Had No Pencil
  • If Nature Smiles - The Mother Must
  • If Pain For Peace Prepares
  • If Recollecting Were Forgetting
  • If She Had Been The Mistletoe
  • If The Foolish, Call Them "Flowers"
  • If This Is "Fading"
  • If Those I Loved Were Lost
  • If What We Could&Mdash;Were What We Would
  • If You Were Coming In The Fall,
  • If Your Nerve, Deny You
  • Image of Light, Adieu
  • Immured in Heaven!
  • Impossibility, Like Wine
  • In Ebon Box, When Years Have Flown
  • In Falling Timbers Buried
  • In Lands I Never Saw—they Say
  • In Rags Mysterious As These
  • In Snow Thou Comest
  • In This Short Life
  • In Winter In My Room
  • Inconceivably Solemn!
  • Is Bliss Then, Such Abyss
  • Is It Dead—find It
  • Is It Too Late To Touch You, Dear?
  • Is It True, Dear Sue?
  • It Always Felt To Me—a Wrong
  • It Bloomed And Dropt, A Single Noon
  • It Can'T Be "Summer"!
  • It Ceased To Hurt Me, Though So Slow
  • It Did Not Surprise Me
  • It Don'T Sound So Terrible—quite—as It Did
  • It Dropped So Low -- In My Regard --
  • It Dropped So Low In My Regard
  • It Feels A Shame To Be Alive
  • It Is A Lonesome Glee
  • It Is An Honorable Thought,
  • It Is Easy To Work When The Soul Is At Play
  • It Knew No Lapse, Nor Diminuation
  • It Knew No Medicine
  • It Makes No Difference Abroad
  • It Might Be Lonelier
  • It Sifts From Leaden Sieves
  • It sounded as if the Streets were running
  • It stole along so stealthy
  • It Struck Me Every Day
  • It Tossed—and Tossed
  • It Troubled Me As Once I Was
  • It Was A Grave, Yet Bore No Stone
  • It Was Given To Me By The Gods
  • It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up,
  • It Was Too Late For Man
  • It Will Be Summer—eventually
  • It Would Have Starved A Gnat
  • It Would Never Be Common—more—i Said
  • It's All I Have To Bring Today
  • It's Coming—the Postponeless Creature
  • It's Easy To Invent A Life
  • It's Like The Light, --
  • It's Such A Little Thing To Weep
  • It's Thoughts—and Just One Heart
  • I’ll Tell You How The Sun Rose
  • Jesus! Thy Crucifix
  • Joy To Have Merited The Pain
  • Judgment is justest
  • Just As He Spoke It From His Hands
  • Just Lost, When I Was Saved!
  • Kill Your Balm—and Its Odors Bless You
  • Knows How To Forget!
  • Least Bee That Brew
  • Least Rivers—docile To Some Sea
  • Let me not mar that perfect Dream
  • Let Us Play Yesterday
  • Life—is What We Make Of It
  • Light Is Sufficient To Itself
  • Lightly Stepped A Yellow Star
  • Like Brooms of Steel
  • Like Eyes That Looked On Wastes
  • Like Flowers, That Heard The News Of Dews
  • Like Her The Saints Retire
  • Like Mighty Foot Lights—burned The Red
  • Like Some Old Fashioned Miracle
  • Like Trains Of Cars On Tracks Of Plush
  • Lives He In Any Other World
  • Longing is like the Seed
  • Love Reckons By Itself—alone
  • Love&Mdash;Is Anterior To Life
  • Love&Mdash;Thou Art High
  • Love—is Anterior To Life
  • Love—is That Later Thing Than Death
  • Love—thou Art High
  • Low At My Problem Bending
  • Luck is not chance
  • Make Me A Picture Of The Sun
  • Mama Never Forgets Her Birds
  • Many A Phrase Has The English Language
  • Many Cross The Rhine
  • March is the Month of Expectation
  • May-Flower
  • Me From Myself—to Banish
  • Me Prove It Now—whoever Doubt
  • Me! Come! My Dazzled Face
  • Me, Change! Me, Alter!
  • Midsummer, Was It, When They Died
  • Mine enemy is growing old
  • Mine—by The Right Of The White Election!
  • More Life—went Out—when He Went
  • Morning—is The Place For Dew
  • Morning—means
  • Morns Like These—we Parted
  • Most She Touched Me By Her Muteness
  • Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
  • Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
  • Must Be A Woe
  • Mute Thy Coronation
  • My Best Acquaintances Are Those
  • My Cocoon Tightens, Colors Tease
  • My Eye Is Fuller Than My Vase
  • My Faith Is Larger Than The Hills
  • My First Well Day—since Many Ill
  • My Friend Attacks My Friend!
  • My Friend Must Be A Bird
  • My Garden—like The Beach
  • My Life Closed Twice
  • My Life Had Stood
  • My Nosegays Are For Captives;
  • My Period Had Come For Prayer
  • My Portion Is Defeat—today
  • My Reward For Being, Was This
  • My River Runs To Thee
  • My Soul—accused Me—and I Quailed
  • My Wheel Is In The Dark
  • My Worthiness Is All My Doubt
  • Myself Was Formed—a Carpenter
  • Nature And God—i Neither Knew
  • Nature Is What We See—
  • Nature Rarer Uses Yellow
  • Nature The Gentlest Mother Is
  • Nature, The Gentlest Mother,
  • Nature—sometimes Sears A Sapling
  • Never For Society
  • New Feet Within My Garden Go
  • No Bobolink—reverse His Singing
  • No Crowd That Has Occurred
  • No Man Can Compass A Despair
  • No Matter—now—sweet
  • No Notice Gave She, But A Change
  • No Other Can Reduce
  • No Prisoner Be
  • No Rack Can Torture Me
  • No Romance Sold Unto
  • Nobody Knows This Little Rose
  • None Can Experience Sting
  • Noon—is The Hinge Of Day
  • Not
  • Not "Revelation"&Mdash;'Tis&Mdash;That Waits
  • Not All Die Early, Dying Young
  • Not any sunny tone
  • Not In This World To See His Face
  • Not Probable—the Barest Chance
  • Not Sickness stains the Brave,
  • Not That We Did, Shall Be The Test
  • Not with a club, the Heart is broken
  • Of All The Souls That Stand Create
  • Of All The Sounds Despatched Abroad
  • Of Being Is A Bird
  • Of Bronze—and Blaze
  • Of Brussels—it Was Not
  • Of Consciousness, Her Awful Mate
  • Of Course—i Prayed
  • Of Nearness To Her Sundered Things
  • Of Silken Speech And Specious Shoe
  • Of so divine a Loss
  • Of Tolling Bell I Ask The Cause?
  • Of Tribulation, These Are They
  • Of Yellow was the outer Sky
  • Oh Shadow on the Grass
  • On A Columnar Self
  • On my volcano grows the Grass
  • On Such A Night, Or Such A Night
  • On That Dear Frame The Years Had Worn
  • On This Long Storm The Rainbow Rose
  • On This Wondrous Sea
  • Once More, My Now Bewildered Dove
  • One And One—are One
  • One Anguish—in A Crowd
  • One Blessing Had I Than The Rest
  • One Crucifixion Is Recorded—only
  • One Day Is There Of The Series
  • One Dignity Delays For All
  • One Life Of So Much Consequence!
  • One Need Not Be A Chamber To Be Haunted,
  • One Sister Have I In Our House
  • One Year Ago—jots What?
  • Only A Shrine, But Mine
  • Only God—detect The Sorrow
  • Our Journey Had Advanced;
  • Our Little Kinsmen—after Rain
  • Our Lives Are Swiss
  • Our Share Of Night To Bear
  • Ourselves Were Wed One Summer—dear
  • Out Of Sight? What Of That?
  • Over And Over, Like A Tune
  • Over The Fence
  • Pain
  • Pain Has An Element
  • Pain Has An Element Of Blank;
  • Pain&Mdash;Expands The Time
  • Papa Above!
  • Part Five: The Single Hound
  • Partake As Doth The Bee
  • Patience—has A Quiet Outer
  • Peace Is A Fiction Of Our Faith
  • Perhaps I Asked Too Large
  • Perhaps You Think Me Stooping
  • Perhaps You'D Like To Buy A Flower
  • Pigmy Seraphs—gone Astray
  • Poor Little Heart!
  • Portraits Are To Daily Faces
  • Praise it - 'tis dead -
  • Prayer Is The Little Implement
  • Precious To Me—she Still Shall Be
  • Presentiment Is That Long Shadow On The Lawn
  • Promise This—when You Be Dying
  • Proud Of My Broken Heart
  • Publication
  • Publication—is The Auction
  • Purple—is Fashionable Twice
  • Put Up My Lute!
  • Read—sweet—how Others—strove
  • Rearrange a 'Wife's' affection!
  • Rehearsal To Ourselves
  • Remembrance has a Rear and Front
  • Remorse - Is Memory - Awake -
  • Removed From Accident Of Loss
  • Renunciation
  • Rest At Night
  • Reverse Cannot Befall
  • Revolution is the Pod
  • Ribbons Of The Year
  • Robbed By Death—but That Was Easy
  • Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers,
  • Said Death To Passion
  • Savior! I'Ve No One Else To Tell
  • September's Baccalaureate
  • Severer Service Of Myself
  • Sexton! My Master's Sleeping Here
  • Shall I take thee, the Poet said
  • She Bore It Till The Simple Veins
  • She could not live upon the Past
  • She Dealt Her Pretty Words Like Blades
  • She Died At Play
  • She Died—this Was The Way She Died
  • She Dwelleth In The Ground
  • She Hideth Her The Last
  • She Lay As If At Play
  • She Rose To His Requirement
  • She Slept Beneath A Tree
  • She Sped As Petals Of A Rose
  • She Staked Her Feathers—gained An Arc
  • She Sweeps With Many-Colored Brooms,
  • She Went As Quiet As The Dew
  • She's Happy, With A New Content
  • Shells From The Coast Mistaking
  • Should You But Fail At—sea
  • Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
  • Silence is all we dread
  • Size Circumscribes—it Has No Room
  • Sleep Is Supposed To Be
  • Smiling Back From Coronation
  • Snow Beneath Whose Chilly Softness
  • Snow Flakes
  • So Bashful When I Spied Her!
  • So From The Mould
  • So Glad We Are—a Stranger'D Deem
  • So Has A Daisy Vanished
  • So much of Heaven has gone from Earth
  • So Much Summer
  • So Proud She Was To Die
  • So Set Its Sun In Thee
  • So The Eyes Accost—and Sunder
  • So Well That I Can Live Without
  • Soil Of Flint, If Steady Tilled
  • Some Days retired from the rest
  • Some Keep The Sabbath Going To Church
  • Some Rainbow—coming From The Fair!
  • Some Such Butterfly Be Seen
  • Some Things That Fly There Be
  • Some, Too Fragile For Winter Winds
  • Sometimes with the Heart
  • Soto! Explore Thyself!
  • Soul, Wilt Thou Toss Again?
  • South Winds Jostle Them
  • Sown In Dishonor
  • Speech is one symptom of Affection
  • Split The Lark&Mdash;And You'Ll Find The Music
  • Spring comes on the World
  • Spring Is The Period
  • STEP lightly on this narrow spot
  • Strong Draughts Of Their Refreshing Minds
  • Struck, Was I, Not Yet By Lightning
  • Success Is Counted Sweetest
  • Such Is The Force Of Happiness
  • Summer For Thee, Grant I May Be
  • Summer Shower
  • Sunset At Night—is Natural
  • Superfluous Were The Sun
  • Surgeons Must Be Very Careful
  • Suspense—is Hostiler Than Death
  • Sweet Mountains—ye Tell Me No Lie
  • Sweet&Mdash;Safe&Mdash;Houses
  • Sweet&Mdash;You Forgot&Mdash;But I Remembered
  • Sweet, To Have Had Them Lost
  • Sweet—you Forgot—but I Remembered
  • T Was Just This Time Last Year I Died.
  • Take Your Heaven Further On
  • Taking Up The Fair Ideal
  • Talk With Prudence To A Beggar
  • Teach Him—when He Makes The Names
  • Tell All The Truth
  • Tell as a Marksman - were forgotten
  • That After Horror—that 'Twas Us
  • That Distance Was Between Us
  • That First Day, When You Praised Me, Sweet
  • That I Did Always Love
  • That Is Solemn We Have Ended
  • The Admirations—and Contempts—of Time
  • The Angle Of A Landscape
  • The Bat Is Dun With Wrinkled Wings
  • The Battle Fought Between The Soul
  • The Battlefield
  • The Bee Is Not Afraid Of Me
  • The Beggar at the Door for Fame
  • The Beggar Lad&Mdash;Dies Early
  • The Bible Is An Antique Volume
  • The Bird Must Sing To Earn The Crumb
  • The Birds Begun At Four O'Clock
  • The Birds Reported From The South
  • The Black Berry—wears A Thorn In His Side
  • The Blue Jay
  • The Body Grows Without
  • The Brain Within It's Groove
  • The Brain&Mdash;Is Wider Than The Sky
  • The Brain, Within Its Groove
  • The Brain—is Wider Than The Sky
  • The Bustle In A House
  • The Bustle In A House
  • The Butterfly In Honored Dust
  • The Butterfly Obtains
  • The Butterfly Upon The Sky
  • The Butterfly's Assumption Gown
  • The Chariot
  • The Chemical Conviction
  • The Child's Faith Is New
  • The Clover's simple Fame
  • The Color Of A Queen, Is This
  • The Color Of The Grave Is Green
  • The Court Is Far Away
  • The Cricket Sang,
  • The Daisy Follows Soft The Sun
  • The Day Came Slow
  • The Day That I Was Crowned
  • The Day Undressed&Mdash;Herself
  • The Definition Of Beauty Is
  • The Devil - had he fidelity
  • The Difference Between Despair
  • The Doomed—regard The Sunrise
  • The Drop, That Wrestles In The Sea
  • The Dust Behind I Strove To Join
  • The Duties Of The Wind Are Few
  • The Dying Need But Little, Dear,--
  • The Earth Has Many Keys
  • The Face I Carry With Me—last
  • The Face we choose to miss
  • The Feet Of People Walking Home
  • The Fingers Of The Light
  • The First Day That I Was A Life
  • The First Day's Night Had Come
  • The Flower Must Not Blame The Bee
  • The Future—never Spoke
  • The Gentian Weaves Her Fringes
  • The Going From A World We Know
  • The Good Will Of A Flower
  • The Grace—myself—might Not Obtain
  • The Grass So Little Has To Do
  • The grave my little cottage is
  • The Guest Is Gold And Crimson
  • The Hallowing Of Pain
  • The Heart Asks Pleasure First
  • The Heart Has Narrow Banks
  • The Heaven Vests For Each
  • The Hills erect their Purple Heads
  • The Hills in Purple syllables
  • The Himmaleh Was Known To Stoop
  • The Hollows Round His Eager Eyes
  • The inundation of the Spring
  • The Judge Is Like The Owl
  • The Juggler's Hat Her Country Is
  • The Lady Feeds Her Little Bird
  • The Lamp Burns Sure—within
  • The Last Night That She Lived
  • The Leaves Like Women Interchange
  • The Loneliness One Dare Not Sound
  • The Lonesome For They Know Not What
  • The Love A Life Can Show Below
  • The Luxury To Apprehend
  • The Malay—took The Pearl
  • The Manner Of Its Death
  • The Martyr Poets—did Not Tell
  • The Missing All—prevented Me
  • The Months Have Ends—the Years—a Knot
  • The Moon Was But A Chin Of Gold
  • The Morning After Woe
  • The Morns Are Meeker Than They Were
  • The Mountain Sat Upon The Plain
  • The Mountains—grow Unnoticed
  • The Murmur Of A Bee
  • The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants
  • The Mystery Of Pain
  • The Name—of It—is 'Autumn'
  • The Nearest Dream Recedes, Unrealized.
  • The Night Was Wide, And Furnished Scant
  • The Notice that is called the Spring
  • The One Who Could Repeat The Summer Day
  • The Only Ghost I Ever Saw
  • The Only News I Know
  • The Outer—from The Inner
  • The Pedigree Of Honey
  • The Poets Light But Lamps
  • The Power To Be True To You
  • The Province Of The Saved
  • The Railway Train
  • The Rainbow Never Tells Me
  • The Red—blaze—is The Morning
  • The reticent volcano keeps
  • The Road Was Lit With Moon And Star
  • The Robin For The Crumb
  • The Robin Is The One
  • The Robin's My Criterion For Tune
  • The Rose Did Caper On Her Cheek
  • The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman (1487)
  • The Sea Said 'Come' To The Brook
  • The Service Without Hope
  • The Show Is Not The Show,
  • The Skies Can'T Keep Their Secret!
  • The Sky Is Low, The Clouds Are Mean,
  • The Snow That Never Drifts
  • The Soul Has Bandaged Moments
  • The Soul Selects Her Own Society
  • The Soul That Hath A Guest
  • The Soul Unto Itself (683)
  • The Soul's Distinct Connection
  • The Soul's Superior Instants
  • The Spider as an Artist
  • The Spider Holds A Silver Ball
  • The Spirit Is The Conscious Ear
  • The Spry Arms Of The Wind
  • The Sun And Moon Must Make Their Haste
  • The Sun Is Gay Or Stark
  • The Sun Kept Setting—setting—still
  • The Sun Kept Stooping—stooping
  • The Sunrise Runs For Both
  • The Sunset Stopped On Cottages
  • The Sun—just Touched The Morning
  • The Sweetest Heresy Received
  • The Test Of Love—is Death
  • The Thought Beneath So Slight A Film
  • The Tint I Cannot Take—is Best
  • The Trees Like Tassels—hit—and Swung
  • The Truth—is Stirless
  • The Veins Of Other Flowers
  • The Way I Read A Letter's—this
  • The White Heat
  • The Whole Of It Came Not At Once
  • The Wind Begun To Knead The Grass
  • The Wind Begun To Rock The Grass
  • The Wind Didn'T Come From The Orchard—today
  • The Wind Tapped Like A Tired Man,
  • The Wind Took Up The Northern Things
  • The Winters Are So Short
  • The Woodpecker
  • The Words The Happy Say
  • The Work Of Her That Went
  • The World&Mdash;Feels Dusty
  • The World&Mdash;Stands&Mdash;Solemner&Mdash;To Me
  • The World—stands—solemner—to Me
  • The Zeroes—taught Us—phosphorous
  • Their Height In Heaven Comforts Not
  • There Are Two Ripenings—one—of Sight
  • There Came A Day At Summer's Full
  • There Came A Wind Like A Bugle
  • There comes a warning like a spy
  • There Is A Finished Feeling
  • There Is A Flower That Bees Prefer
  • There Is A June When Corn Is Cut
  • There Is A Languor Of The Life
  • There Is A Morn By Men Unseen
  • There Is A Pain—so Utter
  • There Is A Shame Of Nobleness
  • There Is A Word
  • There Is An Arid Pleasure
  • There is another Loneliness
  • There Is Another Sky
  • There Is No Frigate Like A Book
  • There is no Silence in the Earth
  • There's A Certain Slant Of Light (258)
  • There's Been A Death In The Opposite House
  • There's Something Quieter Than Sleep
  • These Are The Days When Birds Come Back
  • These Fevered Days - to take them to the Forest
  • These Tested Our Horizon
  • These—saw Visions
  • They Ask But Our Delight
  • They Called Me To The Window, For
  • They Dropped Like Flakes
  • They Have A Little Odor—that To Me
  • They Leave Us With The Infinite
  • They Put Us Far Apart
  • They Say That 'Time Assuages,
  • They Shut Me Up In Prose
  • They Won'T Frown Always—some Sweet Day
  • This Bauble Was Preferred Of Bees
  • This Chasm, Sweet, Upon My Life
  • This Consciousness That Is Aware
  • This Dust, And Its Feature
  • This Heart That Broke So Long
  • This Is A Blossom Of The Brain
  • This Is My Letter To The World,
  • This Is The Land The Sunset Washes,
  • This Merit Hath The Worst
  • This Quiet Dust Was Gentlemen And Ladies
  • This That Would Greet&Mdash;An Hour Ago
  • This Was A Poet&Mdash;It Is That
  • This Was In The White Of The Year
  • This World Is Not Conclusion
  • This&Mdash;Is The Land&Mdash;The Sunset Washes
  • Tho' I Get Home How Late—how Late
  • Tho' My Destiny Be Fustian
  • Those Fair—fictitious People
  • Those Who Have Been In The Grave The Longest
  • Three Times—we Parted—breath—and I
  • Through Lane It Lay—through Bramble
  • Through The Dark Sod—as Education
  • Through The Strait Pass Of Suffering
  • Tie The Strings To My Life, My Lord,
  • Till Death—is Narrow Loving
  • Time Feels So Vast That Were It Not
  • To Be Alive—is Power
  • To Die
  • To Die—takes Just A Little While
  • To Fight Aloud, Is Very Brave
  • To Fill A Gap
  • To Flee From Memory
  • To Hang Our Head&Mdash;Ostensibly
  • To Hear An Oriole Sing
  • To Interrupt His Yellow Plan
  • To Know Just How He Suffered—Would Be Dear
  • To Learn The Transport By The Pain
  • To Lose One's Faith&Mdash;Surpass
  • To Lose Thee
  • To Love Thee Year By Year
  • To Make A Prairie (1755)
  • To Make One's Toilette&Mdash;After Death
  • To Mend Each Tattered Faith
  • To My Quick Ear The Leaves Conferred;
  • To My Small Hearth His Fire Came
  • To Offer Brave Assistance
  • To One Denied The Drink
  • To Own The Art Within The Soul
  • To Put This World Down, Like A Bundle
  • To See Her Is A Picture
  • To the bright east she flies,
  • To This World She Returned
  • To Venerate The Simple Days
  • To Wait An Hour—is Long
  • Too cold is this
  • Too Little Way The House Must Lie
  • Train
  • Triumph—may Be Of Several Kinds
  • Trust In The Unexpected
  • Truth—is As Old As God
  • Twas Crisis—all The Length Had Passed
  • Twas Such A Little—little Boat
  • Twice Had Summer Her Fair Verdure
  • Two Butterflies Went Out At Noon
  • Two Swimmers Wrestled On The Spar
  • Two Travellers Perishing In Snow
  • Two—were Immortal Twice
  • Unable Are The Loved To Die
  • Uncertain Lease—develops Lustre
  • Under The Light, Yet Under
  • Undue Significance A Starving Man Attaches
  • Unfulfilled To Observation
  • Unit, Like Death, For Whom?
  • Unto Like Story—trouble Has Enticed Me
  • Unto Me? I Do Not Know You—
  • Unto My Books—so Good To Turn
  • Upon Concluded Lives
  • Victory Comes Late
  • Volcanoes be in Sicily
  • Wait Till The Majesty Of Death
  • Warm in her Hand these accents lie
  • Water Makes Many Beds
  • Water, Is Taught By Thirst
  • We Can But Follow To The Sun
  • We Cover Thee—sweet Face
  • We Do Not Play On Graves
  • We Don'T Cry—tim And I
  • We Dream—it Is Good We Are Dreaming
  • We Grow Accustomed To The Dark
  • We Learned The Whole Of Love
  • We Like March, His Shoes Are Purple,
  • We Lose—because We Win
  • We Met As Sparks—diverging Flints
  • We Miss Her, Not Because We See
  • We Outgrow Love, Like Other Things
  • We Play At Paste,
  • We Pray&Mdash;To Heaven
  • We See&Mdash;Comparatively
  • We Should Not Mind So Small A Flower
  • We Talked As Girls Do
  • We Thirst At First—'Tis Nature's Act
  • Went Up A Year This Evening!
  • Wert Thou But Ill—that I Might Show Thee
  • We—bee And I—live By The Quaffing
  • What Care The Dead, For Chanticleer
  • What Did They Do Since I Saw Them?
  • What I See Not, I Better See
  • What If I Say I Shall Not Wait!
  • What Inn Is This
  • What Is—
  • What Shall I Do When The Summer Troubles
  • What Shall I Do—it Whimpers So
  • What Soft—cherubic Creatures
  • What Would I Give To See His Face?
  • When a Lover is a Beggar
  • When Bells Stop Ringing—church—begins
  • When Diamonds Are A Legend
  • When I Count The Seeds
  • When I Have Seen The Sun Emerge
  • When I Hoped, I Recollect
  • When I Was Small, A Woman Died
  • When Katie Walks, This Simple Pair Accompany Her Side
  • When Memory is full
  • When Night Is Almost Done
  • When One Has Given Up One's Life
  • When Roses Cease To Bloom, Sir
  • When The Astronomer Stops Seeking
  • When We Stand On The Tops Of Things
  • Where Bells No More Affright The Morn
  • Where I Have Lost, I Softer Tread
  • Where Ships Of Purple—gently Toss
  • Where Thou Art—that—is Home
  • Whether My Bark Went Down At Sea
  • Whether they have forgotten
  • While Asters&Mdash;
  • While It Is Alive
  • Who Court Obtain Within Himself
  • Who Giants Know, With Lesser Men
  • Who Never Lost, Are Unprepared
  • Who Occupies This House?
  • Who Were 'The Father And The Son'
  • Whole Gulfs - of Red, and Fleets
  • Whose Are The Little Beds, I Asked
  • Whose Cheek Is This?
  • Whose Pink career may have a close
  • Why Do I Love You, Sir?
  • Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?
  • Why Make It Doubt—it Hurts It So
  • Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
  • Will There Really Be A "Morning"?
  • Witchcraft Has Not A Pedigree
  • Witchcraft Was Hung, In History
  • With A Flower
  • With Thee, In The Desert
  • Within My Garden, Rides A Bird
  • Within My Reach!
  • Without This—there Is Nought
  • Wolfe Demanded During Dying
  • Woodpecker, The
  • work For Immortality
  • Would You Like Summer? Taste Of Ours
  • Yesterday Is History
  • You Cannot Put A Fire Out
  • You Constituted Time
  • You Know That Portrait In The Moon
  • You left me—Sire—two Legacies
  • You Love Me—you Are Sure
  • You Love The Lord—you Cannot See
  • You Said That I
  • You See I Cannot See—your Lifetime
  • You Taught Me Waiting With Myself
  • You'Ll Find—it When You Try To Die
  • You'Ll Know Her—by Her Foot
  • You'Ll Know It—as You Know 'Tis Noon
  • You'Re Right—
  • Your Riches—taught Me—poverty
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