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Poems by Emily Dickinson

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

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[This is my letter to the world]

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[III. Alter? When the hills do]

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[VI. If you were coming in the fall]

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VII. WITH A FLOWER.

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[IX. Have you got a brook in your little heart]

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X. TRANSPLANTED.

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XI. THE OUTLET.

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XIII. RENUNCIATION.

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XIV. LOVE'S BAPTISM.

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XV. RESURRECTION.

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XVI. APOCALYPSE.

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XVII. THE WIFE.

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XVIII. APOTHEOSIS.

IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.

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XVI.
APOCALYPSE.

I'm wife; I've finished that,
That other state;
I'm Czar, I'm woman now:
It 's safer so.

How odd the girl's life looks
Behind this soft eclipse!
I think that earth seems so
To those in heaven now.

This being comfort, then
That other kind was pain;
But why compare?
I'm wife! stop there!