Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
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Faith is a fine inventionFor gentlemen who see;But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency!
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Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
By Dickinson, Emily
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical. The Poetry Foundation describes her as having "created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized."
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- Much Madness
- Success
- Time and Eternity
- Wild Nights
- Mother Nature
- Time Is No Remedy
- Aspiration
- Two swimmers wrestled
- On Sight
- I Died for Beauty
- Heart, We Will Forget Him
- To Lose Thee
- In a Library
- A Slant of Light
- The Secret
- The Kindly Carriage
- Parting Twice
- Saturday Afternoon
- Dawn Vigil
- The Grass
- Stand Ajar
- Indian Summer
- The Soul Unto Itself
- A Something in Summer
- A Door's Contrast
- When Death Becomes Life
- Longing
- Trying to Forget
- Enough
- As Imperceptibly as Grief
- Delight and Distance
- To March
- Hope with Feathers
- Death as Dialogue
- To Make a Prairie
- Reticence
- The Last Night She Lived
- The Return
- The Cup I Always Bear
- With a Flower
- A Year I Died
- Forgotten
- Resurgam — Between Night and Day
- The Snake
- Inebriate of Air
- The Master
- This is my letter to the world
- Aurora
- Choosing a Throne
- Epitaph
- Nobody's Rebellion
- Summer's Armies
- The Duel
- A Service of Song
- Eternity's Shore
- Ghosts Within
- Emancipation
- Agony and Truth
- Loyalty
- A Modest Prayer
- Aftermath
- Remorse
- Griefs
- The Coming of Night
- He Touched Me
- Choice
- Life's Trades
- The Brain
- Morning After Death
- Too Much
- Dying
- No Frigate Like a Book
- A Summer Sacrament
- A Fly in the Room
- Three Times Up
- The Unlifted Veil
- The Test
- All I Have to Bring
- Except to heaven, she is nought
- A Measure of a Life
- Lost Faith
- Faith or Microscope
- A light exists in spring
- The Railway Train
- Thirst
- A Book's Liberty
- Certainty Without Sight
- Satisfied
- How Dare the Robins Sing
- Too Late
- The Inevitable
- Your Riches Taught Me Poverty
- When Plenty Arrives
- Memorials
- A Word
- A Toad Can Die of Light
- A Funeral in the Mind
- A Bird on the Walk
- Love Before Life
- Afraid?