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Poems by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
[section]
[My nosegays are for captives]
I. LIFE.
II. LOVE.
1.
I. CHOICE.
2.
[II. I have no life but this]
3.
[III. Your riches taught me poverty]
4.
IV. THE CONTRACT.
5.
V. THE LETTER.
6.
[VI. The way I read a letter's this]
7.
[VII. Wild nights! Wild nights!]
8.
VIII. AT HOME.
9.
IX. POSSESSION.
10.
[X. A charm invests a face]
11.
XI. THE LOVERS.
12.
[XII. In lands I never saw, they say]
13.
[XIII. The moon is distant from the sea]
14.
[XIV. He put the belt around my life]
15.
XV. THE LOST JEWEL.
16.
[XVI. What if I say I shall not wait?]
III. NATURE.
IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.
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XI.
COMPENSATION.
For
each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.
For each beloved hour
Sharp pittances of years,
Bitter contested farthings
And coffers heaped with tears.
Poems by Emily Dickinson