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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.
1.
I. MINE.
2.
II. BEQUEST.
3.
[III. Alter? When the hills do]
4.
IV. SUSPENSE.
5.
V. SURRENDER.
6.
[VI. If you were coming in the fall]
7.
VII. WITH A FLOWER.
8.
VIII. PROOF.
9.
[IX. Have you got a brook in your little heart]
10.
X. TRANSPLANTED.
11.
XI. THE OUTLET.
12.
XII. IN VAIN.
13.
XIII. RENUNCIATION.
14.
XIV. LOVE'S BAPTISM.
15.
XV. RESURRECTION.
16.
XVI. APOCALYPSE.
17.
XVII. THE WIFE.
18.
XVIII. APOTHEOSIS.
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