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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.
III. NATURE.
IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.
1.
[I. One dignity delays for all]
2.
II. TOO LATE.
3.
III. ASTRA CASTRA.
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[IV. Safe in their alabaster chambers]
5.
[V. On this long storm the rainbow rose]
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VI. FROM THE CHRYSALIS.
7.
VII. SETTING SAIL.
8.
[VIII. Look back on time with kindly eyes]
9.
[IX. A train went through a burial gate]
10.
[X. I died for beauty, but was scarce]
11.
XI. “TROUBLED ABOUT MANY THINGS.”
12.
XII. REAL.
13.
XIII. THE FUNERAL.
14.
[XIV. I went to thank her]
15.
[XV. I've seen a dying eye]
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XVI. REFUGE.
17.
[XVII. I never saw a moor]
18.
XVIII. PLAYMATES.
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[XIX. To know just how he suffered would be dear]
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[XX. The last night that she lived]
21.
XXI. THE FIRST LESSON.
22.
[XXII. The bustle in a house]
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[XXIII. I reason, earth is short]
24.
[XXIV. Afraid? Of whom am I afraid?]
25.
XXV. DYING.
26.
[XXVI. Two swimmers wrestled on the spar]
27.
XXVII. THE CHARIOT.
28.
[XXVIII. She went as quiet as the dew]
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XXIX. RESURGAM.
30.
[XXX. Except to heaven, she is nought]
31.
[XXXI. Death is a dialogue between]
32.
[XXXII. It was too late for man]
33.
XXXIII. ALONG THE POTOMAC.
34.
[XXXIV. The daisy follows soft the sun]
35.
XXXV. EMANCIPATION.
36.
XXXVI. LOST.
37.
[XXXVII. If I should n't be alive]
38.
[XXXVIII. Sleep is supposed to be]
39.
[XXXIX. I shall know why, when time is over]
40.
[XL. I never lost as much but twice]
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XIX.
THE MYSTERY OF PAIN.
Pain
has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.
It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.
Poems by Emily Dickinson