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Poems by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
[section]
[My nosegays are for captives]
I. LIFE.
II. LOVE.
III. NATURE.
1.
I. MOTHER NATURE.
2.
II. OUT OF THE MORNING.
3.
[III. At half-past three a single bird]
4.
IV. DAY'S PARLOR.
5.
V. THE SUN'S WOOING.
6.
VI. THE ROBIN.
7.
VII. THE BUTTERFLY'S DAY.
8.
VIII. THE BLUEBIRD.
9.
IX. APRIL.
10.
X. THE SLEEPING FLOWERS.
11.
XI. MY ROSE.
12.
XII. THE ORIOLE'S SECRET.
13.
XIII. THE ORIOLE.
14.
XIV. IN SHADOW.
15.
XV. THE HUMMING-BIRD.
16.
XVI. SECRETS.
17.
[XVII. Who robbed the woods]
18.
XVIII. TWO VOYAGERS.
19.
XIX. BY THE SEA.
20.
XX. OLD-FASHIONED.
21.
XXI. A TEMPEST.
22.
XXII. THE SEA.
23.
XXIII. IN THE GARDEN.
24.
XXIV. THE SNAKE.
25.
XXV. THE MUSHROOM.
26.
XXVI. THE STORM.
27.
XXVII. THE SPIDER.
28.
[XXVIII. I know a place where summer strives]
29.
[XXIX. The one that could repeat the summer day]
30.
XXX. THE WIND'S VISIT.
31.
[XXXI. Nature rarer uses yellow]
32.
XXXII. GOSSIP.
33.
XXXIII. SIMPLICITY.
34.
XXXIV. STORM.
35.
XXXV. THE RAT.
36.
[XXXVI. Frequently the woods are pink]
37.
XXXVII. A THUNDER-STORM.
38.
XXXVIII. WITH FLOWERS.
39.
XXXIX. SUNSET.
40.
[XL. She sweeps with many-colored brooms]
41.
[XLI. Like mighty footlights burned the red]
42.
XLII. PROBLEMS.
43.
XLIII. THE JUGGLER OF DAY.
44.
XLIV. MY CRICKET.
45.
[XLV. As imperceptibly as grief]
46.
[XLVI. It can't be summer,—that got through]
47.
XLVII. SUMMER'S OBSEQUIES.
48.
XLVIII. FRINGED GENTIAN.
49.
XLIX. NOVEMBER.
50.
L. THE SNOW.
51.
LI THE BLUE JAY.
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