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Poems by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
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[My nosegays are for captives]
I. LIFE.
II. LOVE.
III. NATURE.
IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.
1.
[I. Let down the bars, O Death]
2.
[II. Going to heaven]
3.
[III. At least to pray is left, is left]
4.
IV. EPITAPH.
5.
[V. Morns like these we parted]
6.
[VI. A death-blow is a life-blow to some]
7.
[VII. I read my sentence steadily]
8.
[VIII. I have not told my garden yet]
9.
IX. THE BATTLE-FIELD.
10.
[X. The only ghost I ever saw]
11.
[XI. Some, too fragile for winter winds]
12.
[XII. As by the dead we love to sit]
13.
XIII. MEMORIALS.
14.
[XIV. I went to heaven]
15.
[XV. Their height in heaven comforts not]
16.
[XVI. There is a shame of nobleness]
17.
XVII. TRIUMPH.
18.
[XVIII. Pompless no life can pass away]
19.
[XIX. I noticed people disappeared]
20.
XX. FOLLOWING.
21.
[XXI. If anybody's friend be dead]
22.
XXII. THE JOURNEY.
23.
XXIII. A COUNTRY BURIAL.
24.
XXIV. GOING.
25.
[XXV. Essential oils are wrung]
26.
[XXVI. I lived on dread; to those who know]
27.
[XXVII. If I should die]
28.
XXVIII. AT LENGTH.
29.
XXIX. GHOSTS.
30.
XXX. VANISHED.
31.
XXXI. PRECEDENCE.
32.
XXXII. GONE.
33.
XXXIII. REQUIEM.
34.
[XXXIV. What inn is this]
35.
[XXXV. It was not death, for I stood up]
36.
XXXVI. TILL THE END.
37.
XXXVII. VOID.
38.
[XXXVIII. A throe upon the features]
39.
XXXIX. SAVED!
40.
[XL. I think just how my shape will rise]
41.
XLI. THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE.
42.
[XLII. Lay this laurel on the one]
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[XVI. Surgeons must be very careful]
Surgeons
must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the culprit,—Life!
Poems by Emily Dickinson