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Emily Dickinson is one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time. She took definition as her province and challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet’s work. Like writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, she experimented with expression in...
By Emily Dickinson. “Hope” is the thing with feathers -. That perches in the soul -. And sings the tune without the words -. And never stops - at all -. And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -. And sore must be the storm -. That could abash the little Bird. That kept so many warm -.
One Sister have I in our house. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers. Success is counted sweetest. Tell all the truth but tell it slant. The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman. Wild nights - Wild nights! Besides the Autumn poets sing. A lane of Yellow led the eye. I like to see it lap the Miles.
May 3, 2004 · Project Gutenberg's Poems: Three Series, Complete, by Emily Dickinson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
Poems of Emily Dickinson - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets.
I measure every Grief I meet. With narrow, probing, eyes – . I wonder if It weighs like Mine – . Or has an Easier size. I wonder if They bore it long – . Or did it just begin – . I could not tell the Date of Mine – . It feels so old a pain – . I wonder if it hurts to live – .
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