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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.
1.
[I. New feet within my garden go]
2.
II. MAY-FLOWER.
3.
III. WHY?
4.
[IV. Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower]
5.
[V. The pedigree of honey]
6.
VI. A SERVICE OF SONG.
7.
[VII. The bee is not afraid of me]
8.
VIII. SUMMER'S ARMIES.
9.
IX. THE GRASS.
10.
[X. A little road not made of man]
11.
XI. SUMMER SHOWER.
12.
XII. PSALM OF THE DAY.
13.
XIII. THE SEA OF SUNSET.
14.
XIV. PURPLE CLOVER.
15.
XV. THE BEE.
16.
[XVI. Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn]
17.
[XVII. As children bid the guest good-night]
18.
[XVIII. Angels in the early morning]
19.
[XIX. So bashful when I spied her]
20.
XX. TWO WORLDS.
21.
XXI. THE MOUNTAIN.
22.
XXII. A DAY.
23.
[XXIII. The butterfly's assumption-gown]
24.
XXIV. THE WIND.
25.
XXV. DEATH AND LIFE.
26.
[XXVI. 'T was later when the summer went]
27.
XXVII. INDIAN SUMMER.
28.
XXVIII. AUTUMN.
29.
XXIX. BECLOUDED.
30.
XXX. THE HEMLOCK.
31.
[XXXI. There's a certain slant of light]
IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.
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VII.
SETTING SAIL.
Exultation
is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,—
Past the houses, past the headlands,
Into deep eternity!
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?
Poems by Emily Dickinson