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Poems by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
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[This is my letter to the world]
I. LIFE.
II. LOVE.
III. NATURE.
IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.
1.
[I. One dignity delays for all]
2.
II. TOO LATE.
3.
III. ASTRA CASTRA.
4.
[IV. Safe in their alabaster chambers]
5.
[V. On this long storm the rainbow rose]
6.
VI. FROM THE CHRYSALIS.
7.
VII. SETTING SAIL.
8.
[VIII. Look back on time with kindly eyes]
9.
[IX. A train went through a burial gate]
10.
[X. I died for beauty, but was scarce]
11.
XI. “TROUBLED ABOUT MANY THINGS.”
12.
XII. REAL.
13.
XIII. THE FUNERAL.
14.
[XIV. I went to thank her]
15.
[XV. I've seen a dying eye]
16.
XVI. REFUGE.
17.
[XVII. I never saw a moor]
18.
XVIII. PLAYMATES.
19.
[XIX. To know just how he suffered would be dear]
20.
[XX. The last night that she lived]
21.
XXI. THE FIRST LESSON.
22.
[XXII. The bustle in a house]
23.
[XXIII. I reason, earth is short]
24.
[XXIV. Afraid? Of whom am I afraid?]
25.
XXV. DYING.
26.
[XXVI. Two swimmers wrestled on the spar]
27.
XXVII. THE CHARIOT.
28.
[XXVIII. She went as quiet as the dew]
29.
XXIX. RESURGAM.
30.
[XXX. Except to heaven, she is nought]
31.
[XXXI. Death is a dialogue between]
32.
[XXXII. It was too late for man]
33.
XXXIII. ALONG THE POTOMAC.
34.
[XXXIV. The daisy follows soft the sun]
35.
XXXV. EMANCIPATION.
36.
XXXVI. LOST.
37.
[XXXVII. If I should n't be alive]
38.
[XXXVIII. Sleep is supposed to be]
39.
[XXXIX. I shall know why, when time is over]
40.
[XL. I never lost as much but twice]
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[XXII. The bustle in a house]
The
bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,—
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
Poems by Emily Dickinson