Poems by Emily Dickinson, Issue 1 (Google eBook)

Emily Dickinson

Roberts Brothers, 1890 - 152 pages

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Review: The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition

User Review  - Jeni Enjaian - Goodreads

A review from my old blog... I'm not much of a poetry fam. Sure, good poetry appeals to me and I appreciate good imagery. Dickinson is very good poet. Unfortunately, 1800 poems all read in succession ...

Review: The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition

User Review  - Garren - Goodreads

Since this collection is roughly in chronological order, it's difficult to read in order. Like any human, she just isn't very good starting off. The all-around bad poems aren't even much of a bother ...

Contents

• Prelude: 9
• Exclusion: 26
• The Secret: 27
• The Lonely House: 28
• To fight aloud is very brave: 30
• Dawn: 31
• The Book of Martyrs: 32
• The Mystery of Pain: 33
• I taste a liquor never brewed: 34
• A Book: 35
• I had no time to hate because: 36
• Unreturning: 37
• Whether my bark went down at sea: 38
• LOVE: 41
• Mine: 43
• Bequest: 44
• Alter? When the hills do: 45
• Suspense: 46
• Surrender: 47
• If you were coming in the fall: 48
• With a Flower: 50
• Proof: 51
• Have you got a brook in your little heart?: 52
• Transplanted: 53
• The Outlet: 54
• In vain 55: 55
• Renunciation: 58
• Loves Baptism: 60
• Resurrection: 62
• Apocalypse: 63
• The Wife: 64
• Apotheosis: 65
• NATURE: 67
• New feet within my garden go: 69
• Why?: 71
• Perhaps youd like to buy a flower: 72
• The pedigree of honey: 73
• A Service of Song: 74
• The bee is not afraid of me: 75
• Summers Armies: 76
• The Grass: 78
• A little road not made of man: 80
• Summer Shower: 81
• Psalm of the Day: 82
• The Sea of Sunset: 84
• Purple Clover: 85
• The Bee: 87
• Presentiment is that long shadow: 88
• As children bid the guest goodnight: 89
• Angels in the early morning: 90
• So bashful when I spied her: 91
• Two Worlds: 92
• The Mountain: 93
• A Day: 94
• The butterflys assumptiongown: 95
• The Wind: 96
• Death and Life: 98
• T was later when the summer went: 99
• Indian Summer: 100
• Autumn: 102
• Beclouded: 103
• The Hemlock: 104
• Theres a certain slant of light: 106
• Too late: 110
• Look back on time with kindly eyes: 117
• Refuge: 125
• The First Lesson: 132
• The bustle in a house: 133
• I reason earth is short: 134
• Afraid? Of whom am I afraid?: 135
• Dying: 136
• The Chariot: 138
• She went as quiet as the dew: 140
• Resurgam: 141
• Except to heaven she is nought: 142
• Death is a dialogue between: 143
• It was too late for man: 144
• Along the Potomac: 145
• The daisy follows soft the Sun: 146
• Emancipation: 147
• Lost: 148
• If I should nt be alive: 149
• Sleep is supposed to: 150
• I shall know why when time is over: 151
• I never lost as much but twice: 152

Popular passages

Page 138 - Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove - He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility We passed the School, where Children...‎

Page 119 - I died for Beauty — but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room — He questioned softly "Why I failed"?‎

Page 126 - I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather* looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given.‎

Page 34 - Landlords' turn the drunken Bee Out of the Foxglove's door When Butterflies - renounce their 'drams' I shall but drink the more! Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats And Saints - to windows run To see the little...‎

Page 13 - Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple Host Who took the Flag today Can tell the definition So clear of Victory As he defeated -dying— On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Burst agonized and clear!‎

Page 55 - A newer Sevres pleases Old Ones crack I could not die - with You For One must wait To shut the Other's Gaze down You - could not And I - Could I stand by And see You - freeze Without my Right of Frost Death's privilege? Nor could I rise - with You Because Your Face Would put out Jesus...‎

Page 113 - Sleep the meek members of the Resurrection — Rafter of satin, And Roof of stone.‎

Page 106 - There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons — That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes — Heavenly Hurt, it gives us — We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are...‎

Page 18 - If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.‎

Page 35 - He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: Poems by Emily Dickinson, Issue 1; Poems by Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson
• Author: Emily Dickinson
• Editors: Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• Edition: 11
• Publisher: Roberts Brothers, 1890
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 16, 2007
• Length: 152 pages