Classic Poetry


Emily Dickinson

(1830-1886)

'T was just this time last year I died.
A Bird Came Down
A Clock Stopped -- Not The Mantel's
A door just opened on a street
A drop fell on the apple tree
A light exists in spring
A little road not made man
A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
A narrow fellow in the grass
A shady friend for torrid days
A thought went up my mind to-day
After a hundred years
After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes
Ample make this bed.
An everywhere of silver,
Because I could not stop for Death,
Before you thought of spring,
Death sets a thing of signigicant
Delight becomes pictorial
Departed to the judgment,
Each life converges to some centre
Elysium is as far as to
First Robin
For each ecstatic instant
God gave a loaf to every bird,
God made a little gentian;
God permit industrious angels
Going to him! Happy letter! Tell him--
Good night! which put the candle out?
He fumbles at your spirit
Heaven is what I cannot reach!
Her final summer was it,
Hope is the thing with feathers
I breathed enough to learn the trick,
I cannot live with you,
I died for beauty but was scarce
I felt a cleaving in my mind
I felt a funeral in my brain,
I found the phrase to every thought
I had been hungry all the years-
I had no time to hate, because
I heard a fly buzz when I died;
I know a place where summer strives
I like to see it lap the miles,
I lived on dread; to those who know
I measure every grief I meet
I ment to find her when I came;
I never hear the word "escape"
I never saw a moor,
I stepped from plank to plank
I taste a liquor never brewed
I went to heaven,--
I years had been from home,
I'll tell you how the sun rose, --
I'm nobody! Who are you?
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
If you were coming in the fall,
It dropped so low in my regard
It is an honorable thought,
It struck me every day
It was not death, for I stood up,
It's All I have to bring to-day,
It's like the light, --
Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
Me! Come! My dazzled face
My life closed twice before its close;
My nosegays are for captives;
Nature rarer uses yellow
Nature, the gentlest mother,
Not in this world to see his face
Of all the souls that stand create
One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
Our journey had advanced;
Pain has an element of blank;
Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn
Safe in their alabaster chambers,
She rose to his requirement, dropped
She sweeps with many-colored brooms,
So bashful when I spied her,
So proud she was to die
Success is Counted Sweetest
The braind within its groove
The bustle in a house
The cricket sang
The day came slow, till five o' clock
The dying need but little, dear,--
The heart asks pleasure first
The nearest dream recedes, unrealized.
The only ghost I ever saw
The pedigree of honey
The show is not the show,
The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
The thought beneath so slight a film
The White Heat
The wind begun to rock the grass
The wind trapped like a tired man,
There is no frigate like a book
There's a certain slant of light,
There's been a death in the opposite house
They dropped like flakes
They say that 'time assuages,'--
This is my letter to the world,
This is the land the sunset washes,
Tie the strings to my life, my Lord,
To my quick ear the leaves conferred;
Two butterflies went out at noon
Victory comes late,
We like march, his shoes are purple,
We outgrow love like other things
We play at paste,
Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
Woodpecker, The
You left me, sweet, two legacies,--

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