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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.
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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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II.
MAY-FLOWER.
Pink
, small, and punctual,
Aromatic, low,
Covert in April,
Candid in May,
Dear to the moss,
Known by the knoll,
Next to the robin
In every human soul.
Bold little beauty,
Bedecked with thee,
Nature forswears
Antiquity.
Poems by Emily Dickinson