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Poems by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
[section]
[My nosegays are for captives]
I. LIFE.
II. LOVE.
1.
I. CHOICE.
2.
[II. I have no life but this]
3.
[III. Your riches taught me poverty]
4.
IV. THE CONTRACT.
5.
V. THE LETTER.
6.
[VI. The way I read a letter's this]
7.
[VII. Wild nights! Wild nights!]
8.
VIII. AT HOME.
9.
IX. POSSESSION.
10.
[X. A charm invests a face]
11.
XI. THE LOVERS.
12.
[XII. In lands I never saw, they say]
13.
[XIII. The moon is distant from the sea]
14.
[XIV. He put the belt around my life]
15.
XV. THE LOST JEWEL.
16.
[XVI. What if I say I shall not wait?]
III. NATURE.
IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.
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IX.
POSSESSION.
Did
the harebell loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as formerly?
Did the paradise, persuaded,
Yield her moat of pearl,
Would the Eden be an Eden,
Or the earl an earl?
Poems by Emily Dickinson