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Poems by Emily Dickinson

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

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I. NATURE'S CHANGES.

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II. THE TULIP.

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[III. A light exists in spring]

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IV. THE WAKING YEAR.

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[VIII. A murmur in the trees to note]

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[IX. Morning is the place for dew]

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[X. To my quick ear the leaves conferred]

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[XII. High from the earth I heard a bird]

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[XV. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee]

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[XVII. A dew sufficed itself]

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XVIII. THE WOODPECKER.

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[XX. Could I but ride indefinite]

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XXIII. THE BALLOON.

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XXVIII. THE COMING OF NIGHT.

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XXIX. AFTERMATH.

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IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.

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II.
THE TULIP.

She slept beneath a tree
Remembered but by me.
I touched her cradle mute;
She recognized the foot,
Put on her carmine suit,—
And see!