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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.
IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.
1.
[I. One dignity delays for all]
2.
II. TOO LATE.
3.
III. ASTRA CASTRA.
4.
[IV. Safe in their alabaster chambers]
5.
[V. On this long storm the rainbow rose]
6.
VI. FROM THE CHRYSALIS.
7.
VII. SETTING SAIL.
8.
[VIII. Look back on time with kindly eyes]
9.
[IX. A train went through a burial gate]
10.
[X. I died for beauty, but was scarce]
11.
XI. “TROUBLED ABOUT MANY THINGS.”
12.
XII. REAL.
13.
XIII. THE FUNERAL.
14.
[XIV. I went to thank her]
15.
[XV. I've seen a dying eye]
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XVI. REFUGE.
17.
[XVII. I never saw a moor]
18.
XVIII. PLAYMATES.
19.
[XIX. To know just how he suffered would be dear]
20.
[XX. The last night that she lived]
21.
XXI. THE FIRST LESSON.
22.
[XXII. The bustle in a house]
23.
[XXIII. I reason, earth is short]
24.
[XXIV. Afraid? Of whom am I afraid?]
25.
XXV. DYING.
26.
[XXVI. Two swimmers wrestled on the spar]
27.
XXVII. THE CHARIOT.
28.
[XXVIII. She went as quiet as the dew]
29.
XXIX. RESURGAM.
30.
[XXX. Except to heaven, she is nought]
31.
[XXXI. Death is a dialogue between]
32.
[XXXII. It was too late for man]
33.
XXXIII. ALONG THE POTOMAC.
34.
[XXXIV. The daisy follows soft the sun]
35.
XXXV. EMANCIPATION.
36.
XXXVI. LOST.
37.
[XXXVII. If I should n't be alive]
38.
[XXXVIII. Sleep is supposed to be]
39.
[XXXIX. I shall know why, when time is over]
40.
[XL. I never lost as much but twice]
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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