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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.
1.
I. SUCCESS.
2.
[II. Our share of night to bear]
3.
III. ROUGE ET NOIR.
4.
IV. ROUGE GAGNE.
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[V. Glee! the great storm is over]
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[VI. If I can stop one heart from breaking]
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VII. ALMOST!
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[VIII. A wounded deer leaps highest]
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[IX. The heart asks pleasure first]
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X. IN A LIBRARY.
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[XI. Much madness is divinest sense]
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[XII. I asked no other thing]
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XIII. EXCLUSION.
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XIV. THE SECRET.
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XV. THE LONELY HOUSE.
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[XVI. To fight aloud is very brave]
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XVII. DAWN.
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XVIII. THE BOOK OF MARTYRS.
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XIX. THE MYSTERY OF PAIN.
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[XX. I taste a liquor never brewed]
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XXI. A BOOK.
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[XXII. I had no time to hate, because]
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XXIII. UNRETURNING.
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[XXIV. Whether my bark went down at sea,]
25.
[XXV. Belshazzar had a letter]
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[XXVI. The brain within its groove]
II. LOVE.
III. NATURE.
IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.
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XVII.
DAWN.
When
night is almost done,
And sunrise grows so near
That we can touch the spaces,
It 's time to smooth the hair
And get the dimples ready,
And wonder we could care
For that old faded midnight
That frightened but an hour.
Poems by Emily Dickinson