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HE SHOWED ME HEIGHTS I NEVER SAW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "and could I further ""no""?"
Subject(s): Climbing


(DREAM OF EMILY DICKINSON AS IMMATERIAL SURF BREAKING), by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: & all in the mind


A BOOK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no frigate like a book
Last Line: That bears a human soul!
Subject(s): Books; Reading


A CAP OF LEAD ACROSS THE SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of winter and of hell
Subject(s): Storms


A CEMETERY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies
Last Line: Then ceased like these.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards


A CHARM INVESTS A FACE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That image — satisfies
Subject(s): Faces


A COUNTRY BURIAL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ample make this bed
Last Line: Interrupt this ground.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


A DEATH-BLOW IS A LIFE-BLOW TO SOME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They died, vitality begun
Subject(s): Death


A DEED KNOCKS FIRST AT THOUGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Its doom is audible


A DEW SUFFICED ITSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And doom's celerity
Subject(s): Life; Dew


A DIALOGUE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death is a dialogue between
Last Line: An overcoat of clay.
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The


A FACE DEVOID OF LOVE OR GRACE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: First time together thrown
Subject(s): Faces


A LETTER FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like me, you used to write while baking bread
Last Line: I take from you as you take me apart
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


A LIGHT EXISTS IN SPRING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon a sacrament
Subject(s): Nature; Religion


A LITTLE BREAD - A CRUST - A CRUMB, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Must seek the neighboring life!
Subject(s): Food; Moderation


A LITTLE MADNESS IN THE SPRING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As if it were his own!
Subject(s): Spring; Human Behavior


A LITTLE OVER [OR, EAST OF] JORDAN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A little east of jordan,
Subject(s): Jacob (bible)


A LITTLE OVERFLOWING WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As eloquent appears
Subject(s): Language; Time


A LITTLE ROAD NOT MADE OF MAN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Evangelists record,
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life


A MURMUR IN THE TREES TO NOTE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: No fear you'll miss the road
Subject(s): Forests; Farewell


A POOR TORN HEART, A TATTERED HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Lead the wandering sails
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of


A PROMPT, EXECUTIVE BIRD IS THE JAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As a magistrate
Subject(s): Jays


A ROUTE OF EVANESCENCE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: An easy morning's ride
Subject(s): Postal Service


A SEPAL, PETAL, AND A THORN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And I'm a rose!
Subject(s): Roses


A SHADY FRIEND FOR TORRID DAYS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So notelessly — are made!


A SICKNESS OF THIS WORLD IT MOST OCCASIONS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For deity
Subject(s): Life


A SLASH OF BLUE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: This just makes out the morning sky
Subject(s): Sky; Colors


A SLOOP OF AMBER SLIPS AWAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The son of ecstasy
Subject(s): Boats


A SMILE AS SMALL AS MINE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Precisely their necessity.
Subject(s): Hope; Religion; Optimism; Theology


A SNAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet is the swamp with its secrets
Last Line: And guile is where it goes.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1740;poem: 1780
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


A SOLEMN THING IT WAS, I SAID, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "and I sneered — softly — ""small""!"
Subject(s): Life; Size & Shape


A SOMETHING IN A SUMMER'S DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Another summer's day!
Subject(s): Summer


A SPIDER SEWED AT NIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Did wrestle long and hard —
Subject(s): Spiders; Immortality


A TEMPEST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An awful tempest mashed the air
Last Line: And peace was paradise!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 198;poem: 224
Subject(s): Storms


A THOUGHT WENT UP MY MIND TO-DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And came my way no more
Subject(s): Deja Vu


A THROE UPON THE FEATURES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To rejoin its own
Subject(s): Death; Patience


A THUNDER-STORM (2ND VERSION), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind begun to rock the grass / with threatening tunes and
Last Line: Just quartering a tree.
Subject(s): Storms


A TOAD CAN DIE OF LIGHT!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Which ruby's mine?
Subject(s): Death; Animals


A TRAIN WENT THROUGH A BURIAL GATE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To say good-by to men
Subject(s): Funerals


A WORD IS DEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That day
Subject(s): Language


A WORD MADE FLESH IS SELDOM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Till morning touching mountain —
Subject(s): Language


A WOUNDED DEER LEAPS HIGHEST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "and ""you're hurt"" exclaim!"
Subject(s): Death; Deer


ABOVE OBLIVION'S TIDE THERE IS A PIER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And but one smile that meagres balms
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1531; Poem: 155


ABRAHAM TO KILL HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Manners may prevail
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1317; Poem: 133
Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; Isaac (bible); Religion


ABSENCE DISEMBODIES - SO DOES DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tenderness decreases as we prove
Variant Title(s): Poem: 860; Poem: 90


ABSENT PLACE AN APRIL DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Him it duplicate
Variant Title(s): Poem: 927; Poem: 95


ACCOMPLISHED FACTS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every year emily dickinson sent one friend
Last Line: So it goes....
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving


ADMIRATIONS AND CONTEMPTS OF TIME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Toward the god of him
Variant Title(s): Poem: 906; Poem: 83
Subject(s): Time


ADRIFT! A LITTLE BOAT ADRIFT!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And shot — exultant on!
Subject(s): Boats


ADVANCE IS LIFE'S CONDITION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than not exist at all
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1652; Poem: 173


AFTER ALL BIRDS HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED AND LAID ASIDE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Elegy of integrity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1395; Poem: 138


AFTER GREAT PAIN A FORMAL FEELING COMES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: First — chill — then stupor — then the letting go
Subject(s): Grief; Pain


AFTER GREAT PAIN A FORMAL FEELING COMES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As freezing persons recollect the snow- %first chill, then stupor, then the letting go
Variant Title(s): Poem: 341; Poem: 37
Subject(s): Grief; Pain


AFTER THE POETRY READING; FOR MARIE HOWE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If emily dickinson lived in the 1990's
Last Line: Her fly buzzes me all the way home
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry Readings


AFTER THE SUN COMES OUT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fresh as a cargo from batize %nature's qualities
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1148; Poem: 112


AGAIN - HIS VOICE IS AT THE DOOR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My price for every stain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 663; Poem: 274; "again -- His Voice Is At The Door


AH, MOON AND STAR!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So I can never go!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 240; Poem: 26


AH, NECROMANCY SWEET!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor herb of all the plain %can heal!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 177; Poem: 16
Subject(s): Necromancy; Pain


AH, TENERIFFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'm kneeling — still
Subject(s): Mountains


AIR HAS NO RESIDENCE, NO NEIGHBOR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Till it depart, persuading mine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1060; Poem: 98
Subject(s): Air


ALL BUT DEATH, CAN BE ADJUSTED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is exempt from change
Variant Title(s): Poem: 749; Poem: 78
Subject(s): Death; Mourning


ALL CIRCUMSTANCES ARE THE FRAME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A force illegible
Subject(s): Faces


ALL FORGOT FOR RECOLLECTING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Prove myself of thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 966; Poem: 82


ALL I MAY, IF SMALL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Less, tho' larger, poor
Subject(s): Size & Shape


ALL MEN FOR HONOR HARDEST WORK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In infamy or urn
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1193; Poem: 120


ALL OVERGROWN BY CUNNING MOSS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "when ""bronte"" entered there!"
Subject(s): Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855)


ALL THAT I DO, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For her to be a bride
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1496; Poem: 152


ALL THE LETTERS I CAN WRITE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And just sipped -- me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 334; Poem: 38


ALL THESE MY BANNERS BE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The swamps are pink with june
Variant Title(s): Poem: 22; Poem: 2


ALL THINGS SWEPT STOLE AWAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: This is immensity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1512; Poem: 154


ALONE AND IN A CIRCUMSTANCE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That I should specify
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1167; Poem: 117


ALONE I CANNOT BE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For they're never gone
Variant Title(s): Poem: 298; Poem: 30


ALTHOUGH I PUT AWAY HIS LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: You, sir, taught first - to me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 366; Poem: 40


ALWAYS MINE!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Every dawn, is first
Variant Title(s): Poem: 83


AMBITION CANNOT FIND HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For our mutual hone, immortality!
Subject(s): Immortality; Ambition


AND THIS OF ALL MY HOPES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bored at so brave a root
Variant Title(s): Poem: 913; Poem: 97


AND WITH WHAT BODY DO THEY COME?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He passed through bethlehem
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1492; Poem: 153


ANGEL BOUQUETS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Angels, in the early morning
Last Line: Parched the flowers they bear along.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 94;poem: 73
Subject(s): Angels


ANGLE OF A LANDSCAPE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: These - never stir at all
Variant Title(s): Poem: 375; Poem: 57


ANSWER JULY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Here - said the year
Variant Title(s): Poem: 386; Poem: 66
Subject(s): Seasons; Time


ANTIQUATED GRACE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Good friends with time
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1345; Poem: 136


ANTIQUATED TREE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Remotest consulate
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1514; Poem: 154
Subject(s): Trees


APOLOGY FOR HER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Apology for me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 852; Poem: 95


APPARENTLY WITH NO SURPRISE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To breakfast — to return —
Subject(s): Time


APRIL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An altered look about the hills
Last Line: Receives its annual reply.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 140;poem: 90
Subject(s): April; Nature


ARCTURUS IS HIS OTHER NAME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "over the stile of ""pearl."
Subject(s): Nature; Names


ARE FRIENDS DELIGHT OR PAIN?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Riches are sad.
Subject(s): Friendship


ARROWS ENAMORED OF HIS HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Disdained to rankle there
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1629; Poem: 163


ART THOU THE THING I WANTED?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Subsisting now like god
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1282; Poem: 131


ARTISTS WRESTLED HERE!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Say repose!
Subject(s): Art & Artists


AS BY THE DEAD WE LOVE TO SIT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To our penurious eyes!
Subject(s): Life


AS CHILDREN BID THE GUEST GOOD-NIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Will peep, and prance again
Subject(s): Children; Night


AS FAR FROM PITY AS COMPLAINT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And blaze — the butterflies!
Subject(s): Butterflies


AS FROM THE EARTH THE LIGHT BALLOON, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Defrauded of its song
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1630; Poem: 165


AS FROST IS BEST CONCEIVED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Was somewhere put in twain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 951; Poem: 91


AS IF I ASKED A COMMON ALMS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And shatter me with dawn?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 14; Poem: 32


AS IF SOME LITTLE ARCTIC FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Only, your inference therefrom!
Subject(s): Flowers


AS IF THE SEA SHOULD PART, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Eternity -- is those
Variant Title(s): Poem: 695; Poem: 72


AS IMPERCEPTIBLY AS GRIEF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Into the beautiful
Subject(s): Autumn


AS OLD AS WOE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Can human nature hide
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1168; Poem: 125
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness


AS ONE DOES SICKNESS OVER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For evidence 't has been
Variant Title(s): Poem: 957; Poem: 91


AS PLAN FOR NOON AND PLAN FOR NIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Assisted faint of love
Variant Title(s): Poem: 960; Poem: 107


AS SLEIGH BELLS SEEM IN SUMMER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than dawn in timbuctoo
Variant Title(s): Poem: 981; Poem: 80


AS SUBTLE AS TOMORROW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yet but a name
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1713; Poem: 174


AS SUMMER INTO AUTUMN SLIPS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of life's declivity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1346; Poem: 134
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Time


AS THE STARVED MAELSTROM LAPS THE NAVIES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And a torrid eye
Variant Title(s): Poem: 872; Poem: 106


AS WATCHERS HANG UPON [OR, OPON] THE EAST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Heaven to us, if true
Variant Title(s): Poem: 120; Poem: 12


AS WE PASS HOUSES MUSING SLOW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So minds pass minds %if they be occupied
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1653; Poem: 172


AS WILLING LID O'ER WEARY EYE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Remains but balcony
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1050; Poem: 93


ASHES DENOTE THAT FIRE WAS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Into what carbonates
Subject(s): Fire


ASPIRATION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We never know how high we are
Last Line: For fear to be a king.
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


ASTRA CASTRA, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Departed to the judgment. / a mighty afternoon
Last Line: And leave the soul alone.
Variant Title(s): "departed -- To The Judgment"";poem: 524;


AT EMILY DICKINSON'S GRAVE, by PETER SCHMITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: For some reason the waist-high iron fence
Last Line: Beneath one's feet but grass and flowers, the stones %almostincidental, not quite at home


AT HALF-PAST THREE A SINGLE BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not so, said cunning jacob!
Subject(s): Birds; Time; Creative Ability


AT HALF-PAST THREE A SINGLE BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Circumference between
Subject(s): Time


AT LAST TO BE IDENTIFIED!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Between our feet, and day!
Subject(s): Time; Life


AT LEISURE IS THE SOUL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To help its vacant hands
Variant Title(s): Poem: 618; Poem: 68
Subject(s): Soul


AT LENGTH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her final summer was it, / and yet we guessed it not
Last Line: So leisurely were we!
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


AUCTIONEER OF PARTING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To two - not at more
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1612; Poem: 164
Subject(s): Absence


AURORA, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of bronze and blaze
Last Line: Whom none but daisies know.
Subject(s): Aurora Borealis; Northern Lights


AURORA IS THE EFFORT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To simulate, to us
Variant Title(s): Poem: 100


AUTUMN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morns are meeker than they were
Last Line: I'll put a trinket on.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN OVERLOOKED MY KNITTING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For resembling me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 748; Poem: 78
Subject(s): Knitting


AWAKE YE MUSES NINE, SING ME A STRAIN DIVINE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And bid the world goodmorrow, and go to glory home!
Variant Title(s): Poem:


AWAY FROM HOME ARE SOME AND I, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The more their feet retire
Variant Title(s): Poem: 821; Poem: 80


BABY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Teach him - when he makes the names
Last Line: Some like 'emily'
Variant Title(s): Poem: 198; Poem: 22
Subject(s): Babies; Names


BACK FROM THE CORDIAL GRAVE I DRAG THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That none can understand
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1625; Poem: 164


BAFFLED FOR JUST A DAY OR TWO, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I was never in!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 17; Poem: 6


BANISH AIR FROM AIR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Over your impotence %flits steam
Variant Title(s): Poem: 854; Poem: 96


BATTLE FOUGHT BETWEEN THE SOUL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Enact and terminate
Variant Title(s): Poem: 594; Poem: 62
Subject(s): Soul


BE MINE THE DOOM, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To perish in her hand!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 845; Poem: 91


BEAUTY BE NOT CAUSED - IT IS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That you never do
Variant Title(s): Poem: 516; Poem: 65
Subject(s): Beauty


BEAUTY CROWDS ME TILL I DIE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Let it be in sight of thee
Subject(s): Beauty


BECAUSE 'TWAS RICHES I COULD OWN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Unto a miser's ear
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1093; Poem: 105


BECAUSE HE LOVES HER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That makes our trying poor
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1229; Poem: 118


BECAUSE MY BROOK IS FLUENT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is 'no more sea'
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1200; Poem: 123


BECAUSE THAT YOU ARE GOING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our confiscated gods
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1260; Poem: 131
Subject(s): Life; Mourning


BECAUSE THE BEE MAY BLAMELESS HUM, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I that way worship thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 869; Poem: 90


BECLOUDED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky is low, the clouds are mean
Last Line: Without her diadem.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1075;poem: 1121


BEE HIS BURNISHED CARRIAGE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Remained for her - of rapture %but the humility
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1339; Poem: 135


BEE! I'M EXPECTING YOU!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "I will not let thee go"
Subject(s): Waiting


BEE! I'M EXPECTING YOU!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or better, be with me, %yours, fly
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1035; Poem: 98
Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Imagination; Insects


BEES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bees are black, with gilt surcingles
Last Line: Jugs - a universe's fracture %could not jar or spill
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1405; Poem: 142
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEFORE HE COMES WE WEIGH THE TIME!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is the prevailing freight
Variant Title(s): Poem: 834; Poem: 94
Subject(s): Absence


BEFORE I GOT MY EYE PUT OUT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Incautious — of the sun
Subject(s): Eyes; Vision; Sun


BEFORE THE ICE IS IN THE POOLS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Answer me to wear?
Subject(s): Time


BEGGAR AT THE DOOR FOR FAME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Disclosed to be denied
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1240; Poem: 129
Subject(s): Fame


BEGGAR LAD DIES EARLY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Did supplicate in vain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 496; Poem: 71
Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Charity; Children


BEHIND ME DIPS ETERNITY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And midnight to the south of her %and maelstrom in the sky
Variant Title(s): Poem: 721; Poem: 74


BEHOLD THIS LITTLE BANE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Its tantamount be found
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1438; Poem: 146
Subject(s): Love


BEQUEST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You left me, sweet, two legacies
Last Line: Your consciousness and me.
Subject(s): Love


BEREAVEMENT IS THEIR DEATH TO FEEL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In dying, 'tis as if our souls %absconded suddenly
Variant Title(s): Poem: 645; Poem: 75
Subject(s): Death


BESIDE THIS MAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where saints, and our plain going neighbor %keep may!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 977; Poem: 97


BESIDES THE AUTUMN POETS SING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thy windy will to bear!
Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry & Poets


BEST GAINS MUST HAVE THE LOSSES' TESTS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To constitute them gains
Variant Title(s): Poem: 499; Poem: 68


BEST THINGS DWELL OUT OF SIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Germ's germ where?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 998; Poem: 101


BEST WITCHCRAFT IS GEOMETRY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To thinking of mankind
Variant Title(s): Poem: 115
Subject(s): Geometry; Magic


BETROTHED TO RIGHTEOUSNESS MIGHT BE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Which she was taught to eat
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1641; Poem: 165


BETTER - THAN MUSIC! FOR I, WHO HEARD IT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Drop into tune - around the throne
Variant Title(s): Poem: 50
Subject(s): Music And Musicians


BETTER THAN MUSIC!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Better than music!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 37


BETWEEN MY COUNTRY AND THE OTHERS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But flowers negotiate between us %as ministry
Variant Title(s): Poem: 905; Poem: 82


BETWEEN THE FORM OF LIFE AND LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The corkless is superior - %I know for I have tried
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1101; Poem: 112
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism


BIND ME I STILL CAN SING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Still thine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 100
Subject(s): Singing And Singers


BIRD DID PRANCE, THE BEE DID PLAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Too near thou art for fame
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1107; Poem: 114


BIRD HER PUNCTUAL MUSIC BRINGS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To those that magic make
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1585; Poem: 155


BIRD MUST SING TO EARN THE CRUMB, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But once a century, the rose %superfluous becomes
Variant Title(s): Poem: 880; Poem: 92
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Time


BIRDS BEGUN AT FOUR O'CLOCK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Forgotten, as fulfilled
Variant Title(s): Poem: 783; Poem: 50


BIRDS REPORTED FROM THE SOUTH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A wiser sympathy
Variant Title(s): Poem: 743; Poem: 78


BIRTHDAY OF BUT A SINGLE PANG, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But affluent the doom
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1488; Poem: 154
Subject(s): Holidays


BLACK BERRY WEARS A THORN IN HIS SIDE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Brave black berry
Variant Title(s): Poem: 548; Poem: 55
Subject(s): Blackberries


BLAZING IN GOLD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blazing in gold and quenching in purple
Last Line: And the juggler of day is gone!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 321;poem: 228
Subject(s): Nature


BLESS GOD, HE WENT AS SOLDIERS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I should not fear the fight!
Subject(s): God


BLISS IS THE PLAYTHING [OR, SCEPTRE] OF THE CHILD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rebuke it if we can
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1553; Poem: 158
Subject(s): Happiness


BLOOM IS RESULT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bloom is result. To meet a flower
Last Line: To be a flower is profound %responsibility!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1058; Poem: 103
Subject(s): Flowers


BLOOM UPON THE MOUNTAIN, STATED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The experience
Subject(s): Mountains


BLOSSOMS WILL RUN AWAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is pink eternally
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1578; Poem: 161
Subject(s): Memory


BOBOLINK IS GONE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And shouted let us pray
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1591; Poem: 162
Subject(s): Bobolinks


BOUND - A TROUBLE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Notching the fall of the even sun!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 26


BOUND A TROUBLE -- AND LIVES WILL BEAR IT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bound a trouble -- and lives will bear it
Variant Title(s): Poem: 24


BRIEF, BUT PATIENT ILLNESS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A brief, but patient illness
Variant Title(s): Poem: 2


BRING ME THE SUNSET IN A CUP, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Nature


BROTHER OF INGOTS - AH PERU, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Empty the hearts that purchased you
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1366 (a


BROTHER OF OPHIR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Honor, the shortest route %to you
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1366 (c); Poem: 146


BUMBLE OF A BEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 21


BURDOCK CLAWED [OR, TWITCHED] MY GOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Look further on!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 229; Poem: 28


BUT LITTLE CARMINE HATH HER FACE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Itself exhibit mine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 558; Poem: 56


BUTTERFLY IN HONORED DUST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So chastened as the fly
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1246; Poem: 130
Subject(s): Flies


BUTTERFLY UPON THE SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And that's the way to grieve
Variant Title(s): Poem: 152
Subject(s): Grief


BUTTERFLY'S NUMIDIAN GOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As if it undone
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1387; Poem: 139
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BY A DEPARTING LIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That clarifies the sight %and decks the rays
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1714; Poem: 174


BY A FLOWER -- BY A LETTER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 16


BY CHIVALRIES AS TINY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Which blossom in the dark
Variant Title(s): Poem: 37; Poem: 5


BY HOMELY GIFTS AND HINDERED WORDS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That renovates the world
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1563; Poem: 161
Subject(s): Nothingness


BY MY WINDOW HAVE I FOR SCENERY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To be hallowed accordingly
Variant Title(s): Poem: 797; Poem: 84


BY SUCH AND SUCH AN OFFERING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So martyrs albums show
Variant Title(s): Poem: 38; Poem: 4


BY THE SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I started early, took my dog
Last Line: At me, the sea withdrew.
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean


CALLED BACK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just lost, when I was saved!
Last Line: And the cycles wheel.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 160;poem: 132


CALLING EMILY DICKINSON TO COME, AS GUIDE, OUT WEST, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Certainly, you're a strange choice for a guide
Last Line: And pretending, for an instant, you might hear


CANDOR, MY TEPID FRIEND, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are its iniquity
Subject(s): Candor


CAT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sights a bird -- she chuckles
Last Line: And fled with every one
Variant Title(s): She Sights A Bird -- She Chuckles; Poem: 50
Subject(s): Animals; Cats


CATERPILLAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Intent upon its own career %what use has it for me
Variant Title(s): How Soft A Caterpillar Steps; Poem: 1448; Poem: 152
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects


CHARTLESS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I never saw a moor
Last Line: As if the chart were given.
Subject(s): Death; Faith; God; Heaven; Religion; Sky; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Theology


CHEMICAL CONVICTION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: How more the finished creatures %departed me!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 954; Poem: 107


CHILD'S FAITH IS NEW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Instead of kings
Variant Title(s): Poem: 637; Poem: 70
Subject(s): Innocence


CHILLY PEACE INFESTS THE GRASS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: From whatsoever sea
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1443; Poem: 146


CHOICE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the souls that stand create
Last Line: To all the lists of clay!
Subject(s): Desire; Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


CIRCUMFERENCE THOU BRIDE OF AWE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That dares to covet thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1620; Poem: 163


CIVILIZATION - SPURNS - THE LEOPARD!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor suppressed - with balm
Variant Title(s): Poem: 492; Poem: 27
Subject(s): Leopards


CLIMBING TO REACH THE COSTLY HEARTS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He ran away from earth
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1566; Poem: 162
Subject(s): Escapes


CLOCK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A clock stopped - not the mantel's
Last Line: The dial life and him.
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


CLOCK STRIKES ONE THAT JUST STRUCK TWO, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A vagabond for genesis %has wrecked the pendulum
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1569; Poem: 159
Subject(s): Clocks; Time


CLOUD WITHDREW FROM THE SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is my intention now
Variant Title(s): Poem: 895; Poem: 107
Subject(s): Clouds; Heaven


CLOVER'S SIMPLE FAME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The daisy that has looked behind %has compromised its power
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1232; Poem: 125
Subject(s): Flowers


COCOON ABOVE! COCOON BELOW!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The universe to know!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 129; Poem: 14
Subject(s): Cocoons


COFFIN IS A SMALL DOMAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or estimate or end
Variant Title(s): Poem: 943; Poem: 89
Subject(s): Coffins


COLLOQUY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I died for beauty, but was scarce
Last Line: And covered up our names.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Truth; Dead, The


COLOR - CASTE - DENOMINATION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our minuter intuitions - %deem unplausible
Variant Title(s): Poem: 970; Poem: 83


COLOR OF THE GRAVE IS GREEN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The ferret cannot find
Variant Title(s): Poem: 411; Poem: 42
Subject(s): Graves


COME SHOW THY DURHAM BREAST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is our propensity %the day ensuing
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1542; Poem: 157


COME SLOWLY, EDEN!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Enters - and is lost in balms
Subject(s): Flowers


COMPENSATION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For each ecstatic instant / we must an anguish pay
Last Line: And coffers heaped with tears.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 125


COMPETITIONS OF THE SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Corrodeless play
Variant Title(s): Poem: 149


COMPLAYNT; AFTER EMILY DICKINSON, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm wanton - no I've stopped that
Last Line: Continue!
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Literary Form; Mothers


CONFERRING WITH MYSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Beside this travelling bird!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1655; Poem: 173


CONFIRMING ALL WHO ANALYZE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Has not a voice to spare
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1268; Poem: 130


CONJECTURING A CLIMATE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor eased -- of latitude
Variant Title(s): Poem: 562; Poem: 55
Subject(s): Winter


CONSCIOUS AM I IN MY CHAMBER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But instinct esteem him %immortality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 679; Poem: 77


CONSULTING SUMMER'S CLOCK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I muffle with a jest
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1715; Poem: 175
Subject(s): Time


CONTAINED IN THIS SHORT LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Whose nameless fathoms slink away %beside infinity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1165; Poem: 117


CONTRAST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A door just opened on a street
Last Line: Enlightening misery.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 953;poem: 914


COSMOPOLITES WITHOUT A PLEA, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Knock and it shall be opened %is their theology
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1589; Poem: 159


COULD -- I DO MORE -- FOR THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nought but bouquet?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 443; Poem: 44


COULD HOPE INSPECT HER BASIS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Felled by but one assassin %prosperity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1283; Poem: 128


COULD I - THEN - SHUT THE DOOR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rejected - be - of her?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 188; Poem: 22


COULD I BUT RIDE INDEFINITE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who tight in dungeons are
Subject(s): Freedom; Conduct Of Life


COULD LIVE - DID LIVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Never sailed the bay!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 43; Poem: 5


COULD MORTAL LIP DIVINE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Light swung the silver fleeces
Subject(s): Speech


COULD THAT SWEET DARKNESS WHERE THEY DWELL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Would burst the loneliness
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1493; Poem: 152
Subject(s): Solitude


COUNT NOT THAT FAR THAT CAN BE HAD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is further than the sun
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1074; Poem: 112


COUNTERFEIT - A PLATED PERSON, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And vocal when we die
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1453; Poem: 151
Subject(s): Truth


COURT IS FAR AWAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To intercede - for there
Variant Title(s): Poem: 235; Poem: 25


CREATION STORY, by NATASHA SAJE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Vanilla %is the emily dickinson of orchids
Last Line: With their roots in our throats


CRISIS IS A HAIR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: From presenting here
Variant Title(s): Poem: 889; Poem: 106


CRISIS IS SWEET AND, SET OF HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The transport of the bud
Subject(s): Roses


CRUMBLING IS NOT AN INSTANT'S ACT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fail in an instant, no man did %slipping - is crashe's law
Variant Title(s): Poem: 997; Poem: 101


CURIOUS CLOUD SURPRISED THE SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Had not the majesty
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1710; Poem: 50
Subject(s): Clouds


DANCING EMILY DICKINSON, by RONALD E. MCFARLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: To dance emily dickinson move
Last Line: Century, not %thinking about heading west


DANDELION'S PALLID TUBE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That sepulture is o'er
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1519; Poem: 156
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds


DARE YOU SEE A SOUL AT THE WHITE HEAT?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "peniel"" hills beyond,"
Subject(s): Passion


DARTING FEAR - A POMP - A TEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Inhales the different dawn
Variant Title(s): Poem: 8


DAY GREW SMALL, SURROUNDED TIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon a nail of plush
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1140; Poem: 116


DAY OF EMILY DICKINSON'S FUNERAL, by MARION BUCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mr. Higginson came
Last Line: Into her hands %to greet god with
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


DAY SHE GOES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Departed, or at home
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1308; Poem: 130


DAY THAT I WAS CROWNED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Twas even that 'twas mine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 356; Poem: 61


DAY UNDRESSED HERSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And dome - and window pane
Variant Title(s): Poem: 716; Poem: 49


DAY! HELP! HELP! ANOTHER DAY!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upoon thine arrow hang!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 42; Poem: 5


DAY'S PARLOR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day came slow, till five o'clock
Last Line: The parlor of the day!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 304;poem: 572
Subject(s): Nature


DAYS THAT WE CAN SPARE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We let go all of time without %arithmetic of him
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1184; Poem: 122


DEAR MARCH, COME IN!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And praise as mere as blame
Subject(s): March (month)


DEATH IS LIKE THE INSECT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tis the vermin's will
Subject(s): Insects; Death; Trees


DEATH IS POTENTIAL TO THAT MAN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Itself dissolved of god
Variant Title(s): Poem: 548; Poem: 65
Subject(s): God


DEATH IS THE SUPPLE SUITOR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And kindred as responsive %as porcelain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1445; Poem: 147
Subject(s): Death


DEATH LEAVES US HOMESICK, WHO BEHIND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is all that's left them, now
Variant Title(s): Poem: 935; Poem: 106
Subject(s): Death


DEATH TAKES THE SUBWAY; WITH APOLOGIES TO EMILY DICKINSON, by ALLISON JOSEPH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I could not stop for death
Last Line: Not frightened by his chill


DEATH WARRANTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To crucifix or block
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1375; Poem: 140
Subject(s): Death


DEATH'S WAYLAYING NOT THE SHARPEST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He supplants the balm
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1296; Poem: 131
Subject(s): Death


DECLAIMING WATERS NONE MAY DREAD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In nature they are full
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1595; Poem: 163
Subject(s): Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)


DECONSTRUCTION OF EMILY DICKINSON, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lecture had ended when I came in
Last Line: After all that humbug. But she was silent
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


DEFINITION OF BEAUTY IS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Since heaven and he are one
Variant Title(s): Poem: 988; Poem: 79
Subject(s): Beauty; Heaven


DEFRAUDED I A BUTTERFLY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The lawful heir of thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 730; Poem: 85
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


DELIGHT BECOMES PICTORIAL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And that's — the skies
Subject(s): Sky; Mountains; Nature


DELIGHT IS AS THE FLIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our portion - in the fashion - %done
Variant Title(s): Poem: 257; Poem: 31


DELIGHT'S DESPAIR AT SETTING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of its anterior sun
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1299; Poem: 137


DENIAL IS THE ONLY FACT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The spoiler of our home?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 965; Poem: 82


DEPARTED -- TO THE JUDGEMENT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Departed -- to the judgement
Variant Title(s): Poem: 39


DEPRIVED OF OTHER BANQUET, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Reserve for charity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 773; Poem: 87


DESPAIR AND FEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The difference between despair / and fear - is like the one
Last Line: That knows it cannot see.
Subject(s): Despair; Fear


DESPAIR'S ADVANTAGE IS ACHIEVED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Until ourselves are struck
Variant Title(s): Poem: 799; Poem: 85
Subject(s): Despair


DEW IS THE FRESHET IN THE GRASS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Some wednesday afternoon
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1097; Poem: 110


DIAMOND ON THE HAND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That any other buy
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1108; Poem: 113
Subject(s): Jewelry And Jewelers


DID LIFE'S PENURIOUS LENGTH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Protects our sanity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1717; Poem: 175
Subject(s): Life


DID OUR BEST MOMENT LAST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In her unfurnished rooms
Variant Title(s): Poem: 393; Poem: 56


DID THE HAREBELL LOOSE HER GIRDLE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or the earl — an earl?
Subject(s): Reality


DID WE ABOLISH FROST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is optional with us
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1014; Poem: 102
Subject(s): Seasons


DID WE DISOBEY HIM?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oh, wouldn't you?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 267; Poem: 29


DID YOU EVER STAND IN A CAVERN'S MOUTH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It's liker so - it seems
Variant Title(s): Poem: 590; Poem: 61


DIMPLE IN THE TOMB, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Makes that ferocious room %a home
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1489; Poem: 152


DISENCHANTMENT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It dropped so low in my regard
Last Line: Upon my silver shelf.
Variant Title(s): "life;""it Dropped So Low In My Regard"";poem: 747;poem: 785;


DISTANCE IS NOT THE REALM OF FOX, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Until thyself, beloved


DISTRUSTFUL OF THE GENTIAN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To a hand below
Variant Title(s): Poem: 20; Poem: 2


DITCH IS DEAR TO THE DRUNKEN MAN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Amd honor leagues away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1645; Poem: 167


DO PEOPLE MOULDER EQUALLY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He told me, death was dead
Variant Title(s): Poem: 390; Poem: 43
Subject(s): Bible; Corpses; Death; Religion


DOMINION LASTS UNTIL OBTAINED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Supplanting you and me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1257; Poem: 129


DON'T PUT UP MY THREAD AND NEEDLE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Still surmise I stitch
Variant Title(s): Poem: 617; Poem: 68
Subject(s): Americans; Sewing; United States


DOOM IS THE HOUSE WITHOUT THE DOOR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And hemlocks bow to god
Variant Title(s): Poem: 475; Poem: 71
Subject(s): Escapes


DOOMED - REGARD THE SUNRISE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Has ought but energy!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 294; Poem: 29


DOST THOU REMEMBER ME?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Savior, I've no one else to tell
Last Line: Is it too large for you?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 21
Subject(s): Religion


DOUBT IF IT BE US, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That makes the living possible %while it suspends the lives
Variant Title(s): Poem: 859; Poem: 90


DOUBT ME, MY DIM COMPANION!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oh, caviler, for you!
Subject(s): Mortality


DOWN TIME'S QUAINT STREAM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or schedule of the tide
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Tides; Wind


DRAB HABITATION OF WHOM?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or some elf's catacomb?
Subject(s): Houses


DRAMA'S VITALLEST EXPRESSION IS THE COMMON DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Only theatre recorded %owner cannot shut
Variant Title(s): Poem: 741; Poem: 77


DREAMS ARE THE SUBTLE DOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Into the precinct raw %possessed before
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1376; Poem: 140
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAMS ARE WELL, BUT WAKING'S BETTER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Leading to no day
Variant Title(s): Poem: 449; Poem: 45
Subject(s): Waking


DROP, THAT WRESTLES IN THE SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But she, forgetting amphitrite %pleads -- 'me'?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 284; Poem: 25


DROPPED INTO THE ETHER ACRE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Riding to meet the earl
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress


DROWNING IS NOT SO PITIFUL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the bewildered gymnast
Subject(s): Drowning; Fate


DRUNKARD CANNOT MEET A CORK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Your connoisseur in liquors %consults the bumble bee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1628; Poem: 163
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism


DUST BEHIND I STROVE TO JOIN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like balls upon a floor
Variant Title(s): Poem: 99


DUST IS THE ONLY SECRET, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Smuggled to rest!
Subject(s): Death; Secrets


DYING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a fly buzz when I died
Last Line: I could not see to see.
Subject(s): Death; Flies; Labor & Laborers; Mourning; Pain; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery


DYING AT MY MUSIC!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Phials left, and the sun!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 100
Subject(s): Music And Musicians


DYING TIGER MOANED FOR DRINK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But 'twas the fact that he was dead
Variant Title(s): Poem: 529; Poem: 56


DYING! DYING IN THE NIGHT!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dying! Dying in the night!
Last Line: Death won't hurt - now dollie's here!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 158; Poem: 22
Subject(s): Death


DYING! TO BE AFRAID OF THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And love and the reverse
Variant Title(s): Poem: 831; Poem: 94
Subject(s): Love


EACH SCAR I'LL KEEP FOR HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'll mis sum them
Variant Title(s): Poem: 877; Poem: 92


EACH SECOND IS THE LAST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Before the perishing!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 879; Poem: 92


EACH THAT WE LOSE TAKES PART OF US, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is summoned by the tides
Subject(s): Death; Tides


EARTH HAS MANY KEYS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The cricket is her utmost %of elegy to me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 177
Subject(s): Crickets


EATING EMILY DICKINSON, by ROBERT+(2) HUNTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Searching for, and not finding, my copy of the further
Last Line: Read another poem to this day; felt no need to. I'm a vegetarian


ECSTASY TO GUESS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: If grace could talk
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1608; Poem: 168


EDEN IS THAT OLD-FASHIONED HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But discover it no more
Subject(s): Home; Farewell; Memory


ELIJAH'S WAGON KNEW NO THILL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In feats inscrutable
Subject(s): Travel


ELIZABETH TOLD ESSEX, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For a reprieving look
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1321; Poem: 133
Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Essex, Robert Devereaux, 2d Earl Of


EMBARRASSMENT OF ONE ANOTHER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Divinity dwells under seal
Variant Title(s): Poem: 662; Poem: 105


EMIGRANTS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Went up a year this evening
Last Line: Is all the rest I knew!
Subject(s): Time


EMILY DICKINSON, by MELVILLE CANE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Inclosed withing a hedge
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %emily dickinson
Last Line: Send for the cops
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Writing And Writers


EMILY DICKINSON, by LUCHA CORPI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like you, I belong to yesterday
Last Line: Workers in search of %floating gardens as yet %unsown, as yet unharvested
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by LUCHA CORPI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like you, I belong to yesterday
Last Line: Floating gardens as yet %unsown, as yet unharvested


EMILY DICKINSON, by MARGARET TOARELLO DIORIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Born, lived, died in your father's house
Last Line: You glow from behind dark cedars %in amherst among the stars


EMILY DICKINSON, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He saw a laughing girl
Last Line: In a long, in a wind-drawn sigh
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by PAUL HAMILTON ENGLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Demonic yankee who could taste
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry And Poets


EMILY DICKINSON, by MAE WINKLER GOODMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She spoke the dialect of birds
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by INGER HAGERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Very spindly. Very little
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by JENNIE HAIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Phoenix born %of a sufficiently complete
Last Line: Into poems for the ages


EMILY DICKINSON, by JOHN HEWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I, the easy one, was hurt
Last Line: Save that sweet witch who knew at once %my idiom of pain
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by PATRICIA Y. IKEDA    Poem Source                    
First Line: She being too much for life the rare person with no need to travel the
Last Line: That intense sweetness is bitter that white fire frost
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by YURY IVASK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mad old maid of amherst
Last Line: With summer's paradise


EMILY DICKINSON, by MAGGIE (ARONOFF) JAFFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: One of the few women
Last Line: 15 (dead) white men & emily. %shoot the canon!
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Emily dickinson, I think of you
Last Line: Gradual as flowers, gradual as rust
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We think of her hidden in a white dress
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We think of her hidden in a white dress
Last Line: Of vision, the serious mischief %of language, the economy of pain
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, by GARY SMITH    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                
First Line: I've defended you against the many
Last Line: You would have discovered copper within
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON AND GERARD MANELY HOPKINS, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My notebook shows they took a formal cruise,
Last Line: Was warped for good. I am the living proof.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Variant Title(s): Emily Dickinson And Gerard Manley Hopkins
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889); Heritage; Heredity


EMILY DICKINSON AND KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Emily dickson's father yanked on the baptist bell
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Baptists; Porter, Katherine Anne (1890-1980)


EMILY DICKINSON AND KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Emily dickinson's father yanked on the baptist bell
Last Line: To hold her to the light like a plucked flower


EMILY DICKINSON AT COLEVILLE, by HAROLD WITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: We never know how high we are, I said
Last Line: Hoping my heightened cubits wouldn't warp
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON AT COLEVILLE, by HAROLD VERNON WITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: We never know how high we are, I said
Last Line: I sat there quoting her on a rocky slope, %hoping my heightened cubits wouldn't warp
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON AT PRAYER, by NANCY WHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Scissored by corsets, she waited for the yeasty
Last Line: Pearl, ants, and god's hot hand inside her skull


EMILY DICKINSON ATTENDS A WRITING WORKSHOP, by JAYNE RELAFORD BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why plural? %and why all the caps? %(- and dashes?
Last Line: I'd like to see you bring this %through workshop again
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON HARVESTING T'AO CH'IEN, by CAROLYN LAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the hundred degree heat of ghostly music


EMILY DICKINSON IN BOSTON, 1864-65, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: That daguerreotype, with its strabismic gaze
Last Line: It's dislocated fear I sense -- a blur -- and hurry on
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry And Poets


EMILY DICKINSON IN HELL, by PETER MEINKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How flat - as a democracy
Last Line: To find my father - there
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON IN LOVE, by SUSAN WOOD    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When sue walked in and saw them
Last Line: Before she wakes up and discovers it's her own
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON IN LOVE, by SUSAN WOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When sue walked in and saw them
Last Line: So sweet, so thick, it was almost overwhelming
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I called one day - on eden's strand
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON ISN'T IN, by LAUREL SPEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We've traveled up to amherst to see e.D


EMILY DICKINSON LEAVES A MESSAGE TO THE WORLD, NOW THAT HER HOMESTEAD, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I could not stop for breath
Last Line: Was seldom home - to me
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON READING WALT WHITMAN, by BERNARD LEVI ST. ARMAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: I heard he was disgraceful, and he is!
Last Line: He did not take and burn it afterwards
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON TALKS TO T.W. HIGGINSON, by MAUREEN MOREHEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: What if I had come to you in white


EMILY DICKINSON'S ANKLE, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shitfaced at deer camp
Last Line: Distant, tideless %landscape
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S DEFUNCT, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She used to / pack poems
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S DEFUNCT, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She used to %pack poems
Last Line: And buzzed %when she died
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S GARDEN, by ANNE L. CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green-walled and sloping to the east
Last Line: But sheer content the garden fills %in memory secure


EMILY DICKINSON'S HOUSE, by LAWRENCE RAAB    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is true,' emily dickinson wrote
Last Line: The unseen moor, and the narrow wind %that sweeps across it


EMILY DICKINSON'S MIRROR, AMHERST, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Its flecked surface a map of disappearing islands
Last Line: Share wholly. The purist's god. Pride's mirror and island
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S MIRROR, AMHERST, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Its flecked surface a map of disappearing islands
Last Line: Share wholly. The purist's god. Pride's mirror and island
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S QUAINT, STARK RHYMES, by JUDSON CREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Falling on the button - was her glucose
Last Line: Everywhere - would death have seemed %worth dying


EMILY DICKINSON'S ROOM, MAIN STREET, AMHERST, by BARRY NATHAN GOLDENSOHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down through the cross of her windows
Last Line: And locked into place by ice
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S SESTINA FOR MOLLY BLOOM, by BARBARA F. LEFCOWITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: At times I almost believed it: madness
Last Line: Yes, and my heart going like mad and yes saying yes I will yes!
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S SISTER, by CATHERINE SCHERER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Know they're somebody


EMILY DICKINSON'S TO-DO LIST: SUM-SUM-SUMMERTIME, by ANDREA CARLISLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monday: figure out what to wear - white dress?
Last Line: Water flowers on windowsill %hide everything
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S WRITING TABLE IN HER BEDROOM AT THE HOMESTEAD, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chair next to her writing table
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON'S WRITING TABLE IN HER BEDROOM AT THE HOMESTEAD, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chair next to her writing table
Last Line: Out of that house, it would have to come from me
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, BISMARCK AND THE ROADRUNNER'S INQUIRY, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never thought for a moment
Last Line: I would go ahead and do this %without hint or indication %you would accept me, %dear emily
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


EMILY DICKINSON, COMPSING, by DARYL E. JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the polished desk %the lamplight flares
Last Line: She lifts her pen %and turns to the open %window, the darkness %sucking the sheer, white curtain


EMILY DICKINSON-THE TROUBLE WITH YOU IS, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stop mounting pain %if centuries
Last Line: I can't look at a fly with my obvious betterness %and ask why
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory


EMILY DICKINSON: A SERIOUS SYNTACTICIAN, by JOSEPH MCLEOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The daisy
Last Line: If I close my discarding eye %and banish %all the three %at once %the total %sense revolves %caprici


EMPTY MY HEART, OF THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Eternity's vast pocket, picked
Variant Title(s): Poem: 393; Poem: 58
Subject(s): Love


ENDANGER IT, AND THE DEMAND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Divested of its meat
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1658; Poem: 168


ENDED, ERE IT BEGUN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That it was not our privilege %the interdict of god
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1088; Poem: 104


ENDOW THE LIVING WITH THE TEARS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With death's ethereal scorn
Variant Title(s): Poem: 521; Poem: 65
Subject(s): Death


ENOUGH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God gave a loaf to every bird / but just a crumb to me
Last Line: Am sovereign of them all.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 791;poem: 748


ESCAPE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I never heard the word 'escape'
Last Line: Only to fail again.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 77;poem: 144


ESCAPE IS SUCH A THANKFUL WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon this trusty word
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1347; Poem: 136
Subject(s): Escapes


ESCAPING BACKWARD TO PERCEIVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Instructs to the divine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 867; Poem: 96


ESSENTIAL OILS ARE WRUNG, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In ceaseless rosemary
Subject(s): Herbs


ESTRANGED FROM BEAUTY NONE CAN BE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Before identity was leased
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1474; Poem: 151
Subject(s): Beauty


ETERNITY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this wondrous sea
Last Line: Ashore at last!
Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


EVENING (1), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sweeps with many-coloured brooms
Last Line: And then I come away.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


EVENING (2), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cricket sang, / and set the sun, / and workmen finished, o
Last Line: And so the night became.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1104
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight


EVENT WAS DIRECTLY BEHIND HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Centuries from his soul
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1686; Poem: 172


EXCEPT THE HEAVEN HAD COME SO NEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tis lost — and lost to me
Subject(s): Loss


EXCEPT THE SMALLER SIZE, NO LIVES ARE ROUND, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are long
Subject(s): Size & Shape; Time; Summer


EXCEPT TO HEAVEN, SHE IS NOUGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That made existence — home!
Subject(s): Life


EXCLUSION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The soul selects her own society
Last Line: Like stone.
Subject(s): Solitude; Soul; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Loneliness


EXHILARATION - IS WITHIN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Exhale in offering
Variant Title(s): Poem: 383; Poem: 64
Subject(s): Soul


EXHILARATION IS THE BREEZE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon enchanted ground
Subject(s): Happiness


EXPANSE CANNOT BE LOST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But the troops are gone!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1584; Poem: 162


EXPECTATION IS CONTENTMENT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Danger deepens sum
Variant Title(s): Poem: 807; Poem: 86


EXPERIENCE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stepped from plank to plank
Last Line: Some call experience.
Variant Title(s): "i Stepped From Plank To Plank"";poem: 875;poem: 926;


EXPERIENCE IS THE ANGLED ROAD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: His preappointed pain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 910; Poem: 89


EXPERIMENT ESCORTS US LAST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Will not allow an axiom %an opportunity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1770; Poem: 118


EXPERIMENT TO ME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To squirrels, and to me
Subject(s): Meat


EXTOL THEE - COULD I? THEN I WILL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Partaking thee a guaranty %of immortality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1643; Poem: 168


FACE I CARRY WITH ME - LAST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As one that bore her master's name - %sufficient royalty!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 336; Poem: 39


FACE IN EVANESCENCE LAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of detriment divine?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1490; Poem: 152


FACT THAT EARTH IS HEAVEN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To dwell in such a place
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1408; Poem: 143
Subject(s): Earth; Heaven


FACTS BY OUR SIDE ARE NEVER SUDDEN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As ignorant of their resumption %as you or I
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1497; Poem: 153


FADED BOY IN SALLOW CLOTHES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or clover's retrospect
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1524; Poem: 154


FAIRER THROUGH FADING AS THE DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Through an expiring perfect look
Variant Title(s): Poem: 938; Poem: 86


FAIREST HOME I EVER KNEW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A manse of mechlin and of floss
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1423; Poem: 144
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


FAITH IS THE PIERLESS BRIDGE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A first necessity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 915; Poem: 97
Subject(s): Faith


FAITH' IS A FINE INVENTION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In an emergency!
Subject(s): Religion; Faith


FAITH' IS A FINE INVENTION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In an emergency!
Subject(s): Faith


FAITHFUL TO THE END' AMENDED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Try it on yourself
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1357; Poem: 138
Subject(s): Fidelity


FALSEHOOD OF THEE COULD I SUPPOSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her cedar citadel
Variant Title(s): Poem: 100


FAME IS A BEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ah, too, it has a wing
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1763; Poem: 178
Subject(s): Fame


FAME IS THE ONE THAT DOES NOT STAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But we demand the flame
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1475; Poem: 150
Subject(s): Fame


FAME IS THE TINT THAT SCHOLARS LEAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That disappears as comes
Variant Title(s): Poem: 866; Poem: 96
Subject(s): Fame


FAME OF MYSELF TO JUSTIFY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: This were an honor honorless - %a futile diadem
Variant Title(s): Poem: 481; Poem: 71


FAME'S BOYS AND GIRLS, WHO NEVER DIE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And are too seldom born
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1066; Poem: 89
Subject(s): Immortality


FAR FROM LOVE THE HEAVENLY FATHER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To the native land
Subject(s): God


FAREWELL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tie the strings to my life, my lord, / then I am ready to go!
Last Line: Now I am ready to go!
Subject(s): Christianity; Judgment Day; Prayer; Reformation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


FASCINATING CHILL THAT MUSIC LEAVES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But not to our creator
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1480; Poem: 151
Subject(s): Music And Musicians


FATE SLEW HIM, BUT HE DID NOT DROP, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Acknowledged him a man
Subject(s): Fate


FATHER, I BRING THEE NOT MYSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is it too large for you?
Subject(s): Hearts; God; Grief


FEATHER FROM THE WHIPPOORWILL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In 'recess' - overhead!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 16


FEW GET ENOUGH, - ENOUGH IS ONE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To stealthily belong?


FIELD OF STUBBLE, LYING SERE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: On our new england farms
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1407; Poem: 141
Subject(s): Farm Life


FINAL INCH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas like a maelstrom, with a notch
Last Line: Which anguish was the utterest - then %to perish, or to live?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 414; Poem: 42


FINDING IS THE FIRST ACT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Finally, no golden fleece - %jason - sham - too
Variant Title(s): Poem: 870; Poem: 91


FINGERS OF THE LIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Held up his cup for light
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1000; Poem: 101
Subject(s): Light


FINITE TO FAIL, BUT INFINITE TO VENTURE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nodding in navies nevermore
Subject(s): Success; Perseverance


FIRST DAY THAT I WAS A LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Question memory!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 902; Poem: 82


FIRST DAY'S NIGHT HAD COME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Could it be madness - this
Variant Title(s): Poem: 410; Poem: 42
Subject(s): Depression, Mental


FIRST MUTE COMING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Faith alone
Variant Title(s): Poem: 70
Subject(s): Faith


FIRST WE KNEW OF HIM WAS DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The second had not been
Variant Title(s): Poem: 100
Subject(s): Death; Fame


FISH-AFTER READING TOO MUCH EMILY DICKINSON, by SANDRA KOHLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My stream of thought is clotted with your fish, emily
Last Line: The white disc of the moon, with lidless, agnostic eyes


FITTER TO SEE HIM, I MAY BE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The beauty of demand at rest
Variant Title(s): Poem: 968; Poem: 83


FLAKE THE WIND EXASPERATE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By arm of chivalry
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1361; Poem: 141


FLEES SO THE PHANTOM MEADOW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 2


FLOSS WON'T SAVE YOU FROM AN ABYSS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Prices reasonable
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1322; Poem: 133
Subject(s): Rope


FLOWER MUST NOT BLAME THE BEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To people - any more!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 206; Poem: 23


FLOWER WILL NOT TROUBLE HER, IT HAS SO SMALL A FOOT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hers is the smallest boot
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1621; Poem: 164
Subject(s): Feet


FLOWERS -- WELL -- IF ANYBODY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Far superior to mine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 137; Poem: 9
Subject(s): Flowers


FLY GOT IN, THE DAY I DIED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I could no longer see


FOLLOW WISE ORION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He is just as high
Subject(s): Orion (constellation)


FOOLS RUSH IN, by HELEN RUTH FREEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I had been emily dickinson's teacher
Last Line: I would have implored her %discipline your imagination


FOR DEATH, - OR RATHER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For the rates — lie here
Subject(s): Life; Death


FOR EACH EXTATIC INSTANT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 10


FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by MARIANNE BORUCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I stood for a moment
Last Line: There were seven. I lookep us, %too amazed to tell her
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by MARGITA DOBROVICOVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Emily, %if you moved into our apartment house
Last Line: I have a knowledge %how things are here


FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by HORTENSE LAUDAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gates were triple adamant
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by ELIZABETH REVERE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You sit with your box


FOR EVERY BIRD A NEST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Dancing around the sun %does so rejoice?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 143; Poem: 8


FOR LARGEST WOMAN'S HEART I KNEW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I tendered, turn me to
Variant Title(s): Poem: 309; Poem: 54


FOR THIS - ACCEPTED BREATH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Most like their glory show - %fittest the crown
Variant Title(s): Poem: 195; Poem: 23


FORBIDDEN FRUIT: 1, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forbidden fruit a flavor has
Last Line: The pod that duty locks!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1377;poem: 1482


FORBIDDEN FRUIT: 2, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven is what I cannot reach! / the apple on the tree
Last Line: There paradise is found!
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


FORBIDDEN FRUIT: 3, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven' is what I cannot reach!
Last Line: That spurned us - yesterday!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 23


FOREVER -- IS COMPOSED OF NOWS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: From anno domini's
Variant Title(s): Poem: 624; Poem: 69
Subject(s): Time


FOREVER AT HIS SIDE TO WALK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Without the lexicon!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 246; Poem: 26


FOREVER CHERISHED BE THE TREE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To screen them from renown
Subject(s): Trees


FORGET! THE LADY WITH THE AMULET, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'll do thy will
Variant Title(s): Poem: 438; Poem: 62


FORTITUDE INCARNATE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Suit me at a venture %better than the tombs
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1217; Poem: 125
Subject(s): Fortitude


FOUND WANTING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Belshazzar had a letter
Last Line: On revelation's wall.
Subject(s): Bible; Conscience; Religion; Theology


FOUR TREES UPON A SOLITARY ACRE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They severally retard or further %unknown
Variant Title(s): Poem: 742; Poem: 77


FREQUENTLY THE WOODS ARE PINK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By but twelve performed!
Subject(s): Earth; Nature


FRIENDSHIP, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alter? When the hills do
Last Line: I will of you!
Subject(s): Daffodils; Desire; Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


FRIGID AND SWEET HER PARTING FACE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who was she to withhold from me %penury and home?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1231; Poem: 131
Subject(s): Homosexuality


FRINGED GENTIAN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God made a little gentian
Last Line: "creator! Shall I bloom?"
Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Fringed Gentians


FROM ALL THE JAILS THE BOYS AND GIRLS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For such a foe as this 
Subject(s): Children; Play


FROM BLANK TO BLANK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Twas lighter to be blind
Variant Title(s): Poem: 484; Poem: 76


FROM COCOON FORTH A BUTTERFLY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Extinguished — in the sea
Subject(s): Butterflies


FROM HIS SLIM PALACE IN THE DUST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That has befallen him
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1300; Poem: 133


FROM US SHE WANDERED NOW A YEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We took the mystery
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Absence


FROST OF DEATH WAS ON THE PANE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A larger - it is woe
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1136; Poem: 113


FROST WAS NEVER SEEN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But labor vaster than myself %I find it to infer
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1202; Poem: 119


FULL FED ROSE ON MEALS OF TINT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To be esteemed no more
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1154; Poem: 114


FUNNY - TO BE A CENTURY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So dainty of publicity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 345; Poem: 67
Subject(s): Time


FURTHER IN SUMMER THAN THE BIRDS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Found he had worsted god!
Subject(s): Nature


GARLANDS FOR QUEENS, MAY BE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The rose ordained!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 10; Poem: 3


GATHERED INTO THE EARTH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That hath no omen here but awe
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1370; Poem: 139


GENTIAN HAS A PARCHED COROLLA, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fidelity is gain %creation o'er
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1424; Poem: 145
Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians


GHOSTS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One need not be a chamber to be haunted, / one need not be a
Last Line: More near.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural


GIFT FOR EMILY DICKINSON ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, by IRENE MCKINNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A red silk blouse, while she's standing in the kitchen


GIVE LITTLE ANGUISH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sublimer sort — than speech
Subject(s): Death


GIVEN IN MARRIAGE UNTO THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Conquer mortality
Subject(s): God; Faith; Immortality


GLASS WAS THE STREET IN TINSEL PERIL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Makes this present mean
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1498; Poem: 151


GLEE - THE GREAT STORM IS OVER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And only the waves reply
Subject(s): Storms; Survival


GLORY IS THAT BRIGHT TRAGIC THING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In oblivion


GLOWING IS HER BONNET, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Pausing at the place
Subject(s): Death


GO NOT TOO NEAR A HOUSE OF ROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is joy's insuring quality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1434; Poem: 147
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


GO SLOW, MY SOUL, TO FEED THYSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Go boldly, for thou paid'st his price %redemption - for a kiss
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1297; Poem: 132


GO TELL IT' - WHAT A MESSAGE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I give my dying kiss
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1554; Poem: 158


GO THY GREAT WAY!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To point a human life?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1638; Poem: 167


GO TRAVELING WITH US!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To evening's sea
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1513; Poem: 156
Subject(s): Travel


GOD IS A DISTANT - STATELY LOVER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Miles' and 'john alden' were synonym
Variant Title(s): Poem: 357; Poem: 61
Subject(s): God; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)


GOD IS INDEED A JEALOUS GOD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That we had rather not with him %but with each other play
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1719; Poem: 175
Subject(s): God


GOD MADE NO ACT WITHOUT A CAUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our premises to blame
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1163; Poem: 119


GOD'S RESIDENCE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who has not found the heaven below
Last Line: His furniture is love.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1544;poem: 1609
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


GOING FROM A WORLD WE KNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But will the secret compensate %for climbing it alone?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1603; Poem: 166


GOING TO HEAVEN!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line:  left them in the ground
Subject(s): Heaven


GOOD MORNING - MIDNIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He turned away!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 382; Poem: 42


GOOD NIGHT! WHICH PUT THE CANDLE OUT?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To purer reveille!
Subject(s): Night; Sleep


GOOD NIGHT, BECAUSE WE MUST!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Won't you tell them to
Variant Title(s): Poem: 114; Poem: 9


GOOD TO HIDE, AND HEAR 'EM HUNT!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not too dull
Variant Title(s): Poem: 842; Poem: 94


GOOD WILL OF A FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of minted holiness
Variant Title(s): Poem: 849; Poem: 95


GRACE MYSELF MIGHT NOT OBTAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For I inhabit her
Variant Title(s): Poem: 707; Poem: 77
Subject(s): Self


GRATITUDE IS NOT THE MENTION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Proves it there's no sea, or rather %a remoter bed?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 989; Poem: 112
Subject(s): Gratitude


GREAT CAESAR! CONDESCEND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With your majestic leave!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 102; Poem: 14
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


GREAT HOPE FELL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Perpetual nail it down
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1123; Poem: 118


GREAT STREETS OF SILENCE LED AWAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For period exhaled
Subject(s): Silence


GRIEF IS A MOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Since a rack couldn't coax a syllable - now
Variant Title(s): Poem: 793; Poem: 75
Subject(s): Grief


GRIEFS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I measure every grief I meet / with analytic eyes
Last Line: That some are like my own.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GROWTH OF MAN LIKE GROWTH OF NATURE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By no countenance
Variant Title(s): Poem: 750; Poem: 79


GUEST AM I TO HAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Why avoid so narrowly %my fidelity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1661; Poem: 171
Subject(s): Fidelity


GUEST IS GOLD AND CRIMSON, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or the lapwing's shore!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 15; Poem: 4


HAD I KNOWN THAT THE FIRST WAS THE LAST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bliss was most to blame
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1720; Poem: 175
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Pleasure


HAD I NOT SEEN THE SUN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My wilderness was made
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1233; Poem: 124


HAD I NOT THIS, OR THIS, I SAID, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Enfeebles the advance
Variant Title(s): Poem: 904; Poem: 82


HAD I PRESUMED TO HOPE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: This is the second gain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 522; Poem: 63


HAD THIS ONE DAY NOT BEEN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It cherishes before
Subject(s): Time


HAD WE KNOWN THE TON SHE BORE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So be hers the error
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1124; Poem: 118


HAD WE OUR SENSES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So utterly unmoved
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1284; Poem: 131
Subject(s): Depression, Mental


HALLOWING OF PAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: All is the price of all
Variant Title(s): Poem: 772; Poem: 87
Subject(s): Pain


HAPPY LIP - BREAKS SUDDEN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Unqualified, to scan
Variant Title(s): Poem: 35


HARM OF YEARS IS ON HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is a minuter pageant %then least vitality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1280; Poem: 121
Subject(s): Time


HAVE ANY LIKE MYSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not afterward by men
Variant Title(s): Poem: 723; Poem: 73


HAVE YOU GOT A BROOK IN YOUR LITTLE HEART?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Some burning noon go dry!
Subject(s): Brooks


HE FORGOT - AND I - REMEMBERED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Could I do aught else - to thee?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 203; Poem: 23


HE FOUGHT LIKE THOSE WHO'VE NOUGHT TO LOSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of greediness to die
Variant Title(s): Poem: 480; Poem: 75


HE FOUND MY BEING -- SET IT UP, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That time - to take it home
Variant Title(s): Poem: 603; Poem: 51


HE FUMBLES AT YOUR SOUL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The universe - is still
Variant Title(s): Poem: 47


HE GAVE AWAY HIS LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Broke perfect from the pod
Variant Title(s): Poem: 530; Poem: 56


HE IS ALIVE, THIS MORNING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Motion, and am dumb
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1160; Poem: 117


HE LIVED THE LIFE OF AMBUSH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The whole of immortality intrenched %within a star
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1525; Poem: 157


HE OUTSTRIPPED TIME WITH BUT A BOUT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A just sufficient ring
Variant Title(s): Poem: 865; Poem: 111


HE PARTS HIMSELF LIKE LEAVES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: An abbey - a cocoon
Variant Title(s): Poem: 517; Poem: 65


HE PREACHED UPON 'BREADTH' TILL IT ARGUED HIM NARROW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To meet so enabled a man!
Subject(s): Preaching & Preachers; Truth


HE PUT THE BELT AROUND MY LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For whom I must decline?
Subject(s): Life


HE SCANNED IT - STAGGERED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And wandered out of life
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1062; Poem: 99


HE STRAINED MY FAITH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Don't you know me?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 366; Poem: 49
Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ


HE TOLD A HOMELY TALE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I've ransomed it alive
Variant Title(s): Poem: 486; Poem: 76


HE TOUCHED ME, SO I LIVE TO KNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To her imperial sun
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life


HE WAS MY HOST - HE WAS MY GUEST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To keeper of the seed
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1721; Poem: 175


HE WAS WEAK, AND I WAS STRONG - THEN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We didn't do it - tho'!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 190; Poem: 22


HE WENT BY SLEEP THAT DROWSY ROUTE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or ever to remain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1662; Poem: 171


HE WHO IN HIMSELF BELIEVES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For some other shame
Variant Title(s): Poem: 969; Poem: 83


HEART HAS MANY DOORS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That somewhere, there exists, %supremacy
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1567; Poem: 162
Subject(s): Hearts


HEART HAS NARROW BANKS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A questioning dissolves
Variant Title(s): Poem: 928; Poem: 96


HEART IS THE CAPITAL OF THE MIND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: This ecstatic nation %seek - it is yourself
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1354; Poem: 138


HEART NOT SO HEAVY AS MINE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I pray you pass once more
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


HEART, WE WILL FORGET HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I may remember him!
Subject(s): Memor


HEAVEN IS SO FAR OF THE MIND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: No further 'tis, than here
Variant Title(s): Poem: 370; Poem: 41


HEAVEN VESTS FOR EACH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And further -- to adore
Variant Title(s): Poem: 694; Poem: 71


HEAVEN' HAS DIFFERENT SIGNS TO ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not yet, our eyes can see
Variant Title(s): Poem: 544; Poem: 57
Subject(s): Heaven


HEAVENLY FATHER' - TAKE TO THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For thine own duplicity
Subject(s): God


HER 'LAST POEMS', by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Put her down — in italy?
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


HER -- LAST POEMS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 60


HER BREAST IS FIT FOR PEARLS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sweet of twigs and twine %my perennial rest
Variant Title(s): Poem: 84; Poem: 12
Subject(s): Homosexuality


HER FACE WAS IN A BED OF HAIR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: How different we are!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1722; Poem: 175


HER GRACE IS ALL SHE HAS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Another art, to praise
Subject(s): Grace


HER LITTLE PARASOL TO LIFT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As blemishless, as her
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1038; Poem: 98


HER SMILE WAS SHAPED LIKE OTHER SMILES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like beads among the bog
Variant Title(s): Poem: 335; Poem: 51
Subject(s): Smiles


HER SOVEREIGN PEOPLE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As if fallible
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1139; Poem: 89
Subject(s): Nature


HER SPIRIT ROSE TO SUCH A HEIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That effervesced from her
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1486; Poem: 152


HER SWEET TURN TO LEAVE THE HOMESTEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He must have achieved in person %equal paradise
Variant Title(s): Poem: 649; Poem: 75


HER SWEET WEIGHT ON MY HEART A NIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By so much -- as 'twas real
Variant Title(s): Poem: 518; Poem: 61
Subject(s): Homosexuality


HERE, WHERE THE DAISIES FIT MY HEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is sorry, some, for me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1037; Poem: 98


HEREIN A BLOSSOM LIES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Remain - 'tis but a rind
Variant Title(s): Poem: 899; Poem: 107


HIGGLEDY HIGGINSON?, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %emily dickinson
Last Line: Murder and incest are %sweetness and light


HIGH FROM THE EARTH I HEARD A BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: How different we are!
Subject(s): Birds


HILLS IN PURPLE SYLLABLES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Just going home from school
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1016; Poem: 102


HIMMALEH WAS KNOWN TO STOOP, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hung out its flags of snow
Variant Title(s): Poem: 460; Poem: 48


HIS BILL AN AUGER IS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A worm, his utmost goal
Subject(s): Birds


HIS BILL IS CLASPED, HIS EYE FORSOOK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their miracles of tune
Variant Title(s): Poem: 110


HIS CHEEK IS HIS BIOGRAPHER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Past that, he sins in peace 
Subject(s): Cheeks


HIS FEET ARE SHOD WITH GAUZE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of clovers, and of noon
Variant Title(s): Poem: 916; Poem: 97


HIS HEART WAS DARKER THAN THE STARLESS NIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Can be no abode of dawn
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1378; Poem: 140
Subject(s): Despair


HIS LITTLE HEARSE LIKE FIGURE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of idleness and spring
Variant Title(s): Poem: 152


HIS MANSION IN THE POOL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Demosthenes has vanished %in waters green
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1379; Poem: 135


HIS MIND LIKE FABRICS OF THE EAST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Was all the price there was
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1446; Poem: 147


HIS MIND, OF MAN A SECRET MAKES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: However neighborly 
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships


HIS ORIENTAL HERESIES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Have felt it meet to die
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1526; Poem: 156


HIS VOICE DECREPIT WAS WITH JOY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: This livid interview
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1476; Poem: 150
Subject(s): Love


HIS [OR, HER] LOSSES MADE OUR GAINS ASHAMED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It only sweeter grows
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1562; Poem: 160
Subject(s): Eliot, George (1819-1880)


HOLLOWS ROUND HIS EAGER EYES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Edured, unhelped - unknown
Variant Title(s): Poem: 955; Poem: 107


HONEST TEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When obelisk decays
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1232; Poem: 119


HOPE (1), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope is the thing with feathers
Last Line: It asked a crumb of me.
Subject(s): Hope; Optimism


HOPE (2), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope is a subtle glutton
Last Line: The same amounts remain.
Subject(s): Hope; Optimism


HOPE IS A STRANGE INVENTION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Embellish all we own
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1392; Poem: 142
Subject(s): Hope


HOUR IS A SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With them would harbor be
Variant Title(s): Poem: 825; Poem: 89
Subject(s): Time


HOUSE UPON THE HEIGHT [OR, HIGHT], by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Because he - never told
Variant Title(s): Poem: 399; Poem: 55


HOUSES -- SO THE WISE MEN TELL ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Some, would even trudge tonight!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 127; Poem: 13
Subject(s): Mansions


HOUSES OF EMILY DICKINSON, by LARRY RUBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is, of course, the wrong house
Last Line: All houses, for her, it seems, are right
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


HOW BRITTLE ARE THE PIERS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And he pronounced it firm
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1433; Poem: 145
Subject(s): Faith


HOW DARE THE ROBINS SING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: At daybreak overcome!
Subject(s): Life


HOW DESTITUTE IS HE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To india.
Subject(s): Love


HOW FAR IS IT TO HEAVEN?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Defies topography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 929; Poem: 96
Subject(s): Heaven


HOW FIRM ETERNITY MUST LOOK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Unless concealed in thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1499; Poem: 139


HOW FITS HIS UMBER COAT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: This nature - how undone
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1371; Poem: 141


HOW FLEET, HOW INDISCREET AN ONE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We are not scourged to serve
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1771; Poem: 155


HOW FORTUNATE THE GRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: First suitor not in vain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 897; Poem: 107


HOW GOOD HIS LAVA BED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And dress the sleepy day
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1447; Poem: 147


HOW HAPPY I WAS IF I COULD FORGET, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And perish of the cold
Variant Title(s): Poem: 898; Poem: 108


HOW HUMAN NATURE DOTES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Go we anywhere %creation after this?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1417; Poem: 144
Subject(s): Human Behavior


HOW KNOW IT FROM A SUMMER'S DAY?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And sunder as they came
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1364; Poem: 141


HOW LONESOME THE WIND MUST FEEL NIGHTS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then soaring to his temple tall
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1418; Poem: 144
Subject(s): Night


HOW MANY FLOWERS FAIL IN WOOD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It bear to other eyes
Variant Title(s): Poem: 404; Poem: 53
Subject(s): Flowers


HOW MANY SCHEMES MAY DIE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Surveying his despair
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1150; Poem: 132


HOW MANY TIMES THESE LOW FEET STAGGERED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Indolent housewife — in daisies — lain!
Subject(s): Housewives


HOW MUCH OF SOURCE ESCAPES WITH THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Entirely away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1517; Poem: 156


HOW MUCH THE PRESENT MOMENT MEANS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Till the torrents of eternity %do all but inundate
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1380; Poem: 142


HOW NEWS MUST FEEL WHEN TRAVELLING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A thing to tell remain?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1319; Poem: 137
Subject(s): News


HOW NOTELESS MEN, AND PLEIADS, STAND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Without a syllable
Variant Title(s): Poem: 282; Poem: 34


HOW RUTHLESS ARE THE GENTLE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To qualify the wind
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1439; Poem: 146
Subject(s): Wind


HOW SICK - TO WAIT - IN ANY PLACE - BUT THINE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And thou - not there
Variant Title(s): Poem: 368; Poem: 41


HOW SLOW THE WIND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: How late their feathers be
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1571; Poem: 160


HOW SOFT THIS PRISON IS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A dungeon but a kinsman is %incarceration - home
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1334; Poem: 135


HOW STILL THE BELLS IN STEEPLES STAND, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In frantic melody!
Subject(s): Bells


HOW THE OLD MOUNTAINS DRIP WITH SUNSET, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Paralyzed, with gold
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters


HOW THE WATERS CLOSED ABOVE HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Whose unclaimed hat and jacket %sum the history
Variant Title(s): Poem: 92


HOW WELL I KNEW HER NOT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Next door to mine the pain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 837; Poem: 81
Subject(s): Pain


HUNGER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had been hungry all the years; / my noon had come, to dine
Last Line: The entering takes away.
Subject(s): Hunger


HUSBAND FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by OLIVER RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Building a staircase for the colemans
Last Line: Fitting a marble mantel in the dudleys' parlor


I AM AFRAID TO OWN A BODY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And god, for a frontier
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1090; Poem: 105


I AM ALIVE - I GUESS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Which door is mine - and not mistake - %and try another key
Variant Title(s): Poem: 470; Poem: 60
Subject(s): Life


I AM ASHAMED - I HIDE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Baptized -- this day -- a bride
Variant Title(s): Poem: 472; Poem: 70
Subject(s): Marriage; Shame


I BET WITH EVERY WIND THAT BLEW, TILL NATURE IN CHAGRIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And scuttle my balloon
Subject(s): Wind


I BREATHED ENOUGH TO LEARN [OR, TAKE] THE TRICK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: How numb, the bellows feels!
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life


I BRING AN UNACCUSTOMED WINE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When I at last awake
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking


I CAME TO BUY A SMILE - TODAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Say - may I have it - sir?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 223; Poem: 25


I CAN WADE GRIEF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They'll carry — him!
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness


I CAN WADE GRIEF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They'll carry — him!
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness


I CAN'T TELL YOU, BUT YOU FEEL IT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are prepared to go!
Subject(s): Religion


I CANNOT BE ASHAMED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And services of snow
Variant Title(s): Poem: 914; Poem: 97


I CANNOT BUY IT - 'TIS NOT SOLD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then, turn my face away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 84


I CANNOT DANCE UPON MY TOES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It's full as opera—
Subject(s): Ballet; Wit & Humor


I CANNOT DANCE UPON MY TOES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor any placard boast me - %it's full as opera
Variant Title(s): Poem: 326; Poem: 38
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers


I CANNOT LIVE WITH YOU, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And that white sustenance — / despair
Subject(s): Relationships; Despair


I CANNOT MEET THE SPRING UNMOVED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I saw no more of her
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1051; Poem: 112


I CANNOT SEE MY SOUL BUT KNOW 'TIS THERE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By dating it a sudden feast
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1262; Poem: 127
Subject(s): Soul


I CANNOT WANT IT MORE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He fathoms who obtains
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1301; Poem: 122


I CAUTIOUS, SCANNED MY LITTLE LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Love provided thee?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 178; Poem: 17


I COULD BRING YOU JEWELS HAD I A MIND TO, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Better - could I bring?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 697; Poem: 72
Subject(s): Gifts And Giving


I COULD DIE -- TO KNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: While I dream here
Variant Title(s): Poem: 537; Poem: 57


I COULD NOT DRINK IT, SWEET, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The thoughtfulness of thirst
Variant Title(s): Poem: 818; Poem: 81
Subject(s): Thirst


I COULD NOT PROVE THE YEARS HAD FEET, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Proves that - outgrown - I see
Variant Title(s): Poem: 563; Poem: 67
Subject(s): Time


I COULD SUFFICE FOR HIM, I KNEW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Could I do else with mine?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 643; Poem: 71
Subject(s): God


I CRIED AT PITY, NOT AT PAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Had god willed differently
Subject(s): Pity; Graves


I CROSS TILL I AM WEARY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Reversed in victory?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 550; Poem: 66


I DID NOT REACH THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And gets the look at thee
Subject(s): Death; God


I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To gather paradise
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Imagination; Freedom


I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dwell in possibility
Last Line: The spreading wide my narrow hands %to gather paradise
Variant Title(s): Poem: 466; Poem: 65
Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion


I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Might I but moor - tonight - %in thee!


I ENVY SEAS WHEREON HE RIDES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Drop gabriel — and me
Subject(s): Love


I FEAR A MAN OF FRUGAL SPEECH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I fear that he is grand
Variant Title(s): Poem: 543; Poem: 66
Subject(s): Speech


I FELT A FUNERAL IN MY BRAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And finished knowing—then
Subject(s): Depression, Mental


I FELT MY LIFE WITH BOTH MY HANDS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As well as our old home!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 351; Poem: 35


I FIT FOR THEM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The transport of the aim


I GAINED IT SO, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I wore — an hour ago 
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing


I GOT SO I COULD TAKE HIS NAME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Itself, too vast, for interrupting – more –
Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Mourning


I GOT SO I COULD TAKE HIS NAME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Itself, too vast, for interrupting - more
Variant Title(s): Poem: 29
Subject(s): God; Love; Love - Loss Of


I GROPED FOR HIM BEFORE I KNEW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The only food that grows
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1555; Poem: 158


I HAD A DAILY BLISS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I learned to estimate
Subject(s): Growth


I HAD A GUINEA GOLDEN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Beneath the sun may find
Subject(s): Absense


I HAD NO CAUSE TO BE AWAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I struggled — and was there
Subject(s): Sabbath; Sleep


I HAD NO TIME TO HATE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Was large enough for me
Subject(s): Hate


I HAD NOT MINDED WALLS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But every mesh a citadel %and dragons in the crease!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 398; Poem: 55


I HAD SOME THINGS THAT I CALLED MINE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Jove! Choose your counsel - %I retain 'shaw'
Variant Title(s): Poem: 101; Poem: 11
Subject(s): Law And Lawyers


I HAD THE GLORY - THAT WILL DO, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Time's possibility
Variant Title(s): Poem: 349; Poem: 35


I HAVE A BIRD IN SPRING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bright melody for me %return
Variant Title(s): Poem: 4; Poem:
Subject(s): Birds


I HAVE A KING WHO DOES NOT SPEAK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And it were perjury!
Subject(s): God; Silence


I HAVE NEVER SEEN VOLCANOES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To the hills return!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 165; Poem: 17
Subject(s): Volcanoes


I HAVE NO LIFE BUT THIS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The realm of you
Subject(s): Life; God


I HEARD, AS IF I HAD NO EAR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And time went out to tell the news %and met eternity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1039; Poem: 99


I HIDE MYSELF WITHIN MY FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Almost a loneliness
Subject(s): Flowers


I KEEP MY PLEDGE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Will surely come again
Variant Title(s): Poem: 46; Poem: 6


I KNEW THAT I HAD GAINED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In other continent
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1022; Poem: 103


I KNOW A PLACE WHERE SUMMER STRIVES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon her amber shoe
Subject(s): Summer


I KNOW LIVES, I COULD MISS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Could easily outgrow
Variant Title(s): Poem: 372; Poem: 57


I KNOW OF PEOPLE IN THE GRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: If they this moment had
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1665; Poem: 170
Subject(s): Life


I KNOW SUSPENSE - IT STEPS SO TERSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The need is not of me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1285; Poem: 128
Subject(s): Suspense


I KNOW THAT HE EXISTS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Have crawled too far!
Subject(s): God; Faith


I KNOW WHERE WELLS GROW - DROUGHTLESS WELLS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Dearer to understand
Variant Title(s): Poem: 460; Poem: 69
Subject(s): Wells


I LEARNED AT LEAST WHAT HOME COULD BE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where dawn knows how to be
Variant Title(s): Poem: 944; Poem: 89
Subject(s): Home


I LIKE A LOOK OF AGONY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like a look of agony / because I know its true
Last Line: By homely anguish strung.
Subject(s): Death


I LIVE WITH HIM, I SEE HIS FACE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Be judgment — what it may
Subject(s): God; Immortality


I LIVED ON DREAD; TO THOSE WHO KNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Were challenging despair
Subject(s): Fear


I LOST A WORLD THE OTHER DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oh find it – sir – for me!
Subject(s): Books; Loss


I MADE SLOW RICHES BUT MY GAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The sum that it had grown
Variant Title(s): Poem: 843; Poem: 94


I MAKE HIS CRESCENT FILL OR LACK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor whose the tyranny
Variant Title(s): Poem: 909; Poem: 83


I MEANT TO FIND HER WHEN I CAME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To memory — and me
Subject(s): Death; Memory


I MEANT TO HAVE BUT MODEST NEEDS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: All swindlers — be — infer
Subject(s): Prayer; Life


I MET A KING THIS AFTERNOON!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of this barefoot estate!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 166; Poem: 18
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers


I NEVER FELT AT HOME BELOW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But there's the 'judgment day!'
Variant Title(s): Poem: 413; Poem: 43


I NEVER HEAR THAT ONE IS DEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That awful stranger consciousness %deliberately face -
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1323; Poem: 132


I NEVER LOST AS MUCH BUT TWICE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I am poor once more!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; God


I NEVER TOLD THE BURIED GOLD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "atropos"" decide"
Subject(s): Sun; Light; Trith


I NOTICED PEOPLE DISAPPEARED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A fact withheld the little child
Subject(s): Death; Children


I OFTEN PASSED THE VILLAGE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And I will enfold
Variant Title(s): Poem: 41; Poem: 5


I PAY - IN SATIN CASH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is near I can guess
Variant Title(s): Poem: 402; Poem: 52


I PLAY AT RICHES TO APPEASE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Be wholly beautiful
Variant Title(s): Poem: 801; Poem: 85


I PRAYED, AT FIRST, A LITTLE GIRL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And then - it doesn't say
Variant Title(s): Poem: 546; Poem: 57
Subject(s): Prayer


I READ MY SENTENCE STEADILY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And there the matter ends
Subject(s): Judgements; Death; Law; Stoicism


I REASON, EARTH IS SHORT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But what of that?
Subject(s): Mortality


I RECKON - WHEN I COUNT AT ALL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To justify the dream
Subject(s): Summer; Poetry & Poets; Heaven


I RECKON - WHEN I COUNT AT ALL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I reckon - when I count at all
Last Line: It is too difficult a grace - %to justify the dream
Variant Title(s): Poem: 533; Poem: 56
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets


I ROBBED THE WOODS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What will the oak tree say?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 4
Subject(s): Forests


I ROSE BECAUSE HE SANK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I lifted him
Variant Title(s): Poem: 454; Poem: 61


I SAW EMILY DICKINSON IN A VISION AND ASKED IF IT WAS, by JAMES FENTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I had knees. I would not have you think I had no %knees


I SAW NO WAY - THE HEAVENS WERE STITCHED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Beyond the dip of bell
Variant Title(s): Poem: 378; Poem: 63


I SAW THAT THE FLAKE WAS ON IT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For the progress' sake
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1267; Poem: 130


I SAW THE WIND WITHIN HER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I asked humility
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1502; Poem: 153
Subject(s): Wind


I SEE THEE BETTER IN THE DARK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: At the meridian?
Subject(s): Absence; Love


I SEE THEE CLEARER FOR THE GRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Attests the bird that's gone
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1666; Poem: 169


I SEND TWO SUNSETS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To carry in the hand
Subject(s): Wit & Humor


I SEND YOU A DECREPIT FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or circumstance prudential %withheld invincibly
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1324; Poem: 134


I SHALL KEEP SINGING!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Vespers - are sweeter than matins - signor - %morning - only the seed of noon
Variant Title(s): Poem: 250; Poem: 27
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets


I SHALL KNOW WHY, WHEN TIME IS OVER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That scalds me now – that scalds me now!
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.)


I SHALL NOT MURMUR IF AT LAST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But mine dispels in tears
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1410; Poem: 142
Subject(s): Grief


I SHOULD HAVE BEEN TOO GLAD, I SEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "faith"" bleats—to understand!."
Subject(s): Disappointment


I SHOULD NOT DARE TO BE SO SAD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The giant at the other side %begin to perish now
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1233; Poem: 119


I SHOULD NOT DARE TO LEAVE MY FRIEND, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where midnight frosts – had lain!
Subject(s): Death; Time


I SING TO USE THE WAITING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To keep the dark away.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


I SOMETIMES DROP IT, FOR A QUICK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Until he's past the pain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 708; Poem: 78


I STOLE THEM FROM A BEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He pardoned me!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 200; Poem: 22


I SUED THE NEWS YET FEARED THE NEWS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thrown open wide to me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1360; Poem: 139
Subject(s): News


I SUPPOSE THE TIME WILL COME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That, too, halt a little
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1381; Poem: 138


I TEND MY FLOWERS FOR THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Draped for thee!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 339; Poem: 36
Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers


I THINK I WAS ENCHANTED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But magic hath an element %like diety - to keep
Variant Title(s): Poem: 593; Poem: 62
Subject(s): Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Supernatural


I THINK JUST HOW MY SHAPE WILL RISE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I drop my heart — unshriven!
Subject(s): Forgiveness


I THINK THAT THE ROOT OF THE WIND IS WATER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In the atmosphere
Subject(s): Wind; Water


I THINK THE LONGEST HOUR OF ALL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And further north remove
Variant Title(s): Poem: 607; Poem: 63
Subject(s): Time


I THINK TO LIVE MAY BE A BLISS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Just rectified in thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 646; Poem: 75


I THOUGHT THAT NATURE WAS ENOUGH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And you will lodge a giant %and not a smaller man
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1286; Poem: 126
Subject(s): Religion


I THOUGHT THE TRAIN WOULD NEVER COME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For miseries so halcyon %the happiness atone
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1449; Poem: 147
Subject(s): Happiness


I TIE MY HAT -- I CREASE MY SHAWL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To hold our senses - on
Variant Title(s): Poem: 443; Poem: 52


I TOOK MY POWER IN MY HAND, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or was myself — too small?
Subject(s): Self


I TOOK ONE DRAUGHT OF LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then handed me my being's worth - %a single dram of heaven!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1725; Poem: 39
Subject(s): Life


I TRIED TO THINK A LONELIER THING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Perhaps he pitied me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 532; Poem: 57
Subject(s): Pity


I WANT IT PLEADED - ALL ITS LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Toward eternity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 731; Poem: 85


I WAS A PHOEBE [PHEBE] - NOTHING MORE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon the floors of fame
Variant Title(s): Poem: 100
Subject(s): Fame


I WAS THE SLIGHTEST IN THE HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: How noteless - I could die
Variant Title(s): Poem: 473; Poem: 48


I WATCHED HER FACE TO SEE WHICH WAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As flower at fall of frost
Subject(s): News


I WATCHED THE MOON AROUND THE HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To follow her superior road %or its advantage - blue
Variant Title(s): Poem: 629; Poem: 59


I WENT TO HEAVEN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mong such unique / society
Subject(s): Heaven


I WENT TO THANK HER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But turning back 't was slow
Subject(s): Gratitude


I WORKED FOR CHAFF, AND EARNING WHEAT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: At distance than at hand
Subject(s): Wisdom


I WOULD DISTIL A CUP, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By beck, or burn, or moor!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1


I WOULD NOT PAINT - A PICTURE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With bolts — of melody!
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters


I WOULD NOT PAINT - A PICTURE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not paint - a picture
Last Line: Had I the art to stun myself %with bolts of melody!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 348; Poem: 50
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters


I'D RATHER RECOLLECT A SETTING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than wane is easier
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1349; Poem: 136


I'LL CLUTCH - AND CLUTCH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And banish me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 385; Poem: 42
Subject(s): Jewelry And Jewelers


I'LL SEND THE FEATHER FROM MY HAT!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Blisters the adamant!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 196; Poem: 68


I'M 'WIFE' - I'VE FINISHED THAT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "I'm ""wife""! Stop there!"
Subject(s): Spinsters; Youth


I'M CEDED - I'VE STOPPED BEING THEIRS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And I choose, just a crown—
Subject(s): Independence; Pride


I'M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To an admiring bog!
Subject(s): Modesty; Privacy


I'M SAYING EVERY DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Summoned - unexpectedly - %to exeter
Variant Title(s): Poem: 373; Poem: 57


I'M SORRY FOR THE DEAD TODAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "go down the fields to ""hay"
Subject(s): Farm Life


I'M THE LITTLE HEART'S EASE!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ever be induced to do!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 167; Poem: 17


I'M THINKING OF THAT OTHER MORN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Go up in two by two! 
Subject(s): Past


I'VE DROPPED MY BRAIN - MY SOUL IS NUMB, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And every limit a decade %I'll shiver, satisfied
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1046; Poem: 108


I'VE GOT AN ARROW HERE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sped by an archer's bow
Subject(s): Messages & Messagers; Love – Unrquited; Arrows


I'VE HEARD AN ORGAN TALK, SOMETIMES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In that old chaple aisle
Variant Title(s): Poem: 183; Poem: 21


I'VE KNOWN A HEAVEN, LIKE A TENT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then swallowed up, of view
Variant Title(s): Poem: 243; Poem: 25


I'VE NONE TO TELL ME TO BUT THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So overtraking thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 881; Poem: 92


I'VE NOTHING ELSE - TO BRING, YOU KNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To find our way home
Variant Title(s): Poem: 224; Poem: 25


I'VE SEEN A DYING EYE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Twere blessed to have seen—
Subject(s): Eyes


IDEALS ARE THE FAIRY OIL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The eye rejects the oil
Variant Title(s): Poem: 983; Poem: 101


IF, by HELEN CONKLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: If emily dickinson
Last Line: I believe I have lasted


IF ALL THE GRIEFS I AM TO HAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That happens to me now
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1726; Poem: 175
Subject(s): Happiness


IF ANY SINK, ASSURE THAT THIS, NOW STANDING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Dying -- annuls the power to kill
Variant Title(s): Poem: 358; Poem: 61


IF ANYBODY'S FRIEND BE DEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That—makes the quick of woe!
Subject(s): Death


IF BLAME BE MY SIDE, FORFEIT ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is sentence from belief and home
Variant Title(s): Poem: 775; Poem: 87


IF EMILY DICKINSON HAD BEEN AN ONLY CHILD, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stacks of quilts, tied into packets like poems, piled edge to center
Last Line: Less like days of other women left, nameless, to rot


IF EVER THE LID GETS OFF MY HEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The soul there - all the time
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1727; Poem: 58
Subject(s): Soul


IF HE DISSOLVE - THEN - THERE IS NOTHING - MORE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Will he heed?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 236; Poem: 25
Subject(s): God


IF HE WERE LIVING DARE I ASK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My life just holds the trench
Variant Title(s): Poem: 719; Poem: 73


IF I CAN STOP ONE HEART FROM BREAKING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I shall not live in vain
Subject(s): Humanity


IF I COULD BRIBE THEM BY A ROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To drive her from the hall?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 176; Poem: 17


IF I COULD TELL HOW GLAD I WAS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than for eternity
Subject(s): Language


IF I MAY HAVE IT WHEN IT'S DEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Outvisions paradise!
Subject(s): Longing; Imagination; Death; Love – Loss Of


IF I SHOULD CEASE TO BRING A ROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Claps my murmuring lip!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 53; Poem: 5


IF I SHOULD DIE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: If I should die
Subject(s): Death


IF I SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With my granite lip!  
Subject(s): Cemeteries


IF I'M LOST - NOW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Turns so - away from you
Variant Title(s): Poem: 256; Poem: 31


IF IT HAD NO PENCIL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When it plucked me?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 184; Poem: 92


IF MY BARK SINK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mortality's ground floor %is immortality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1234; Poem: 125
Subject(s): Religion


IF NATURE SMILES THE MOTHER MUST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is she so much to blame?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1085; Poem: 110
Subject(s): Mothers


IF PAIN FOR PEACE PREPARES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Noons blaze!
Subject(s): Pain


IF SHE HAD BEEN THE MISTLETOE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And send the rose to you
Variant Title(s): Poem: 44; Poem: 6
Subject(s): Mistletoe


IF THE FOOLISH CALL THEM 'FLOWERS', by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "at that grand ""right hand""!"
Subject(s): Nature; Science


IF THIS IS FADING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Peacock to presumes to die!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 119; Poem: 12
Subject(s): Death


IF THOSE I LOVED WERE LOST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bore his riddle in!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 20; Poem: 2


IF WHAT WE COULD WERE WHAT WE WOULD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The impotence to tell
Subject(s): Talk


IF WRECKED UPON THE SHOAL OF THOUGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is safe - simplicity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1469; Poem: 150
Subject(s): Simplicity


IF YOU WERE COMING IN THE FALL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That will not state—its sting
Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Autumn


IF YOUR NERVE, DENY YOU, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The poltroon wants oxygen - %nothing more
Variant Title(s): Poem: 292; Poem: 32


IGNORANCE A SUNSET, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We start - as if detected %in immortality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 552; Poem: 66


IMAGE OF LIGHT, ADIEU, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Impart - depart
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1556; Poem: 158
Subject(s): Light


IMMORTAL IS AN AMPLE WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It had been heaven below
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is an honorable thought, / and makes one lift one's hat
Last Line: Flit russetly away.
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY SHE GAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The might of human love
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1648; Poem: 168


IMMURED IN HEAVEN! WHAT A CELL!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like that which ravished thee!
Subject(s): Heaven


IMPOSSIBILITY, LIKE WINE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As certainly as doom
Variant Title(s): Poem: 83


IN A LIBRARY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A precious, mouldering pleasure 'tis
Last Line: And tantalize, just so.
Subject(s): Beatrice Portinari (1266-1290); Books; Reading


IN EBON BOX, WHEN YEARS HAVE FLOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Were none of our affair!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 169; Poem: 18


IN FALLING TIMBERS BURIED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like the grace of death
Variant Title(s): Poem: 447; Poem: 61
Subject(s): Death


IN LANDS I NEVER SAW, THEY SAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon an august day?
Subject(s): Alps


IN MANY AND REPORTLESS PLACES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor we who having once inhaled it %thereafter roam
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1382; Poem: 140


IN RAGS MYSTERIOUS AS THESE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon their golden floor!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 102; Poem: 11


IN SHADOW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreaded that first robin so, / but he is mastered now
Last Line: Of their unthinking drums.
Subject(s): Pain; Spring; Suffering; Misery


IN SNOW THOU COMEST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon the depth of thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1669; Poem: 171


IN THE FLESH, by LEE MCCARTHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am tired of males swearing undying love for emily dickinson
Last Line: The last one hangs by a thread. %her ears weren't pierced, he says
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


IN THE GARDEN (1), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bird came down the walk
Last Line: Leap, splashless, as they swim.
Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening


IN THE GARDEN (2), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: New feet within my garden go
Last Line: And still the punctual snow!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 99;poem: 79;new Feet Within My Garden Go
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening


IN THE NAME OF THE BEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 2


IN THIS SHORT LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Within our power
Subject(s): Transience


IN THY LONG PARADISE OF LIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And mortal company
Variant Title(s): Poem: 114


IN WINTER, IN MY ROOM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: This was a dream
Subject(s): Worms; Fear


INCONCEIVABLY SOLEMN!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are drums too near
Variant Title(s): Poem: 414; Poem: 58


INDIAN SUMMER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the days when birds come back
Last Line: Taste thine immortal wine!
Subject(s): Indian Summer


INFINITE A SUDDEN GUEST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Which never went away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1309; Poem: 134


INTOXICATION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I taste a liquor never brewed
Last Line: Leaning against the sun!
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Nature; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse


IS BLISS, THEN, SUCH ABYSS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Verdict for boot!
Subject(s): Virginity


IS HEAVEN A PHYSICIAN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'm not a party to
Subject(s): Heaven


IS IMMORTALITY A BANE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That men are so oppressed?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1728; Poem: 175
Subject(s): Immortality


IS IT TOO LATE TO TOUCH YOU, DEAR?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Love celestial too
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1637; Poem: 167


IS IT TRUE, DEAR SUE?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hist! Whist! I'd come!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 189; Poem: 21


IT ALWAYS FELT TO ME A WRONG, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My justice bleeds for thee!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 521; Poem: 59
Subject(s): Moses


IT BLOOMED AND DROPT, A SINGLE NOON, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Unconscious was -- great nature's face %passed infinite by me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 978; Poem: 84
Subject(s): Flowers


IT CAME AT LAST BUT PROMPTER DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And blocked the coming in
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1230; Poem: 122


IT CAME HIS TURN TO BEG, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Though smuggled his reprieve
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1500; Poem: 151
Subject(s): Begging And Beggars


IT CAN'T BE SUMMER, -- THAT GOT THROUGH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With cuffs of chrysolite!
Subject(s): Seasons


IT CANT BE SUMMER!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It cant be summer!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 26


IT CEASED TO HURT ME, THOUGH SO SLOW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It's better -- almost peace
Variant Title(s): Poem: 584; Poem: 42
Subject(s): Grief


IT DID NOT SURPRISE ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: There was just such coffin %in the heart instead?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 39; Poem: 5


IT DON'T SOUND SO TERRIBLE - QUITE - AS IT DID, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Murder - wear!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 384; Poem: 42
Subject(s): Death


IT FEELS A SHAME TO BE ALIVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Those unsustained - saviours - %present divinity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 444; Poem: 52
Subject(s): War


IT IS A LONESOME GLEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A matter of the skies
Variant Title(s): Poem: 774; Poem: 87


IT IS DEAD - FIND IT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Themself - as dead
Variant Title(s): Poem: 417; Poem: 43
Subject(s): Homesickness


IT IS EASY TO WORK WHEN THE SOUL IS AT PLAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like a panther in the glove
Variant Title(s): Poem: 242; Poem: 24


IT KNEW NO LAPSE, NOR DIMINUTION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But suffered an exchange of territory %or world
Variant Title(s): Poem: 560; Poem: 56


IT KNEW NO MEDICINE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For somewhat that it saw?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 559; Poem: 56


IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE ABROAD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To him — sums misery
Subject(s): Travel; Nature


IT MIGHT BE LONLIER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To perish — of delight —
Subject(s): Solitude; Peace; Fate


IT RISES, PASSES, ON OUR SOUTH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And infinite is gone
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1023; Poem: 103


IT SOUNDED AS IF THE STREETS WERE RUNNING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mixing fresher air


IT STOLE ALONG SO STEALTHY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Beginning not to own
Variant Title(s): Poem: 145


IT STRUCK ME -- EVERY DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 63


IT TOSSED AND TOSSED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To break for you
Subject(s): Boats


IT TROUBLED ME AS ONCE I WAS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And tumble -- blue -- on me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 600; Poem: 51
Subject(s): Knowledge


IT WAS A GRAVE, YET BORE NO STONE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or take away a briar
Variant Title(s): Poem: 876; Poem: 85
Subject(s): Graves


IT WAS A QUIET SEEMING DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The poppy in the cloud
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1419; Poem: 144


IT WAS A QUIET WAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For sunrise stopped upon the place %and fastened it in dawn
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1053; Poem: 57
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital


IT WAS GIVEN TO ME BY THE GODS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The difference made me bold
Variant Title(s): Poem: 454; Poem: 45
Subject(s): Gold


IT WAS NOT DEATH, FOR I STOOD UP, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To justify—despair
Subject(s): Despair


IT WAS NOT SAINT - IT WAS TOO LARGE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like something spiritual
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1092; Poem: 105


IT WAS TOO LATE FOR MAN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of our old neighbor, god!
Subject(s): God


IT WILL BE SUMMER - EVENTUALLY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When sacrament - is done
Variant Title(s): Poem: 342; Poem: 37
Subject(s): Summer


IT WOULD HAVE STARVED A GNAT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And not begin - again
Variant Title(s): Poem: 612; Poem: 44
Subject(s): Gnats


IT WOULD NEVER BE COMMON - MORE - I SAID, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My - drop - of india?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 388; Poem: 43


IT WOULD NOT KNOW IF IT WERE SPURNED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To dare and perish there?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1579; Poem: 161


IT'S ALL I HAVE TO BRING TO-DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Which in the clover dwell
Subject(s): Nature


IT'S COMING - THE POSTPONELESS CREATURE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And carries one - out of it - to god
Variant Title(s): Poem: 390; Poem: 55


IT'S EASY TO INVENT A LIE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Proceed - inserting here - a sun %there - leaving out a man
Variant Title(s): Poem: 724; Poem: 74
Subject(s): God


IT'S SUCH A LITTLE THING TO WEEP, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We men and women die!
Subject(s): Death


IT'S THOUGHTS AND JUST ONE HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not quite content
Variant Title(s): Poem: 362; Poem: 49


ITS HOUR WITH ITSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is licensed to be still
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1225; Poem: 121


ITS LITTLE ETHER HOOD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Expires in a stem
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1501; Poem: 149


JAY HIS CASTANET HAS STRUCK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: No more from yours at present
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1635; Poem: 167


JESUS! THY CRUCIFIX, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mind thee in paradise %of our's!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 225; Poem: 19
Subject(s): Jesus Christ


JOY THAT HAS NO STEM NOR CORE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And patented by pod
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1744; Poem: 176


JOY TO HAVE MERITED THE PAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: At least eternity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 788; Poem: 73


JUDGE IS LIKE THE OWL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: His favorite refrain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 699; Poem: 72
Subject(s): Birds; Owls


JUDGMENT IS JUSTEST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That scrutiny can burn
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1671; Poem: 170


JUGGLER'S HAT HER COUNTRY IS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The mountain gorse - the bee's!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 186; Poem: 33


JUST AS HE SPOKE IT FROM HIS HANDS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Content, soe'er, it ornament %his absent character
Variant Title(s): Poem: 848; Poem: 95


JUST ONCE! OH LEAST REQUEST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Just once' sweet deity?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1076; Poem: 47


JUST SO -- CHRIST -- RAPS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just so -- christ -- raps
Variant Title(s): Poem: 26


JUST SO, JESUS RAPS - HE DOES NOT WEARY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: At thee!
Subject(s): Jesus Christ


JUST TO BE RICH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 63


KILL YOUR BALM -- AND IT'S ODORS BLESS YOU, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kill your balm -- and it's odors bless you
Variant Title(s): Poem: 30


KNOCK WITH TREMOR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What have you to show?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1325; Poem: 133


KNOWS HOW TO FORGET!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Don't you know?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 391; Poem: 43
Subject(s): Knowledge


LAD OF ATHENS, FAITHFUL BE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: All the rest is perjury
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1768; Poem: 160
Subject(s): Fidelity


LADY FEEDS HER LITTLE BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fall softly, and adore
Variant Title(s): Poem: 941; Poem: 92


LAIN IN NATURE SO SUFFICE US, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: On the longed for dead
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1288; Poem: 130


LAMP BURNS SURE - WITHIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As that the slave - is gone
Variant Title(s): Poem: 233; Poem: 24
Subject(s): Slavery


LANE OF YELLOW LED THE EYE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In that low summer of the west %impossible to know
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1650; Poem: 174


LASSITUDES OF CONTEMPLATION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What mettle fair
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1592; Poem: 161


LAST OF SUMMER IS DELIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To walk within the veil
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1353; Poem: 138
Subject(s): Summer


LAY THIS LAUREL ON THE ONE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Him you chasten, that is he!
Subject(s): God


LEAST BEE THAT BREW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The amber quantity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 676; Poem: 87
Subject(s): Honey


LEAST RIVERS - DOCILE TO SOME SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My caspian - thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 206; Poem: 21
Subject(s): Rivers


LECTURING ON WALT WHITMAN AND EMILY DICKINSON IN CHINA, by JESSE GLASS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I celebrate myself
Last Line: With words large & tawdry as the billboards in the muddy fields


LEFT IN IMMORTAL YOUTH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In comprehensive day
Variant Title(s): Poem: 128


LEST ANY DOUBT THAT WE ARE GLAD THAT THEY WERE BORN TODAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Without the date, like consciousness or immortality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1156; Poem: 119
Subject(s): Life


LEST THEY SHOULD COME IS ALL MY FEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When sweet incarcerated here
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1169; Poem: 120


LEST THIS BE HEAVEN INDEED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Between ourself and heaven
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1043; Poem: 100
Subject(s): Heaven


LET ME NOT MAR THAT PERFECT DREAM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: At home — in paradise
Subject(s): Dreams


LET ME NOT THIRST WITH THIS HOCK AT MY LIP, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me not thirst with this hock at my lip
Last Line: Nor beg, with domains in my pocket
Variant Title(s): Poem: 177


LET MY FIRST KNOWING BE OF THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Engulf thee in night
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1218; Poem: 125


LET OTHERS - SHOW THIS SURRY'S GRACE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let others - show this surry's grace
Variant Title(s): Poem: 29


LET US PLAY YESTERDAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Take not my liberty %away from me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 728; Poem: 75
Subject(s): Freedom


LETHE' IS MY FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I perceive the rose
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1730; Poem: 5
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


LETTER FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like me, you used to write while baking bread
Last Line: I take from you, as you take me apart
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


LETTER IS A JOY OF EARTH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It is denied the gods
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1639; Poem: 167
Subject(s): Letters


LETTER TO EMILY DICKINSON, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They speak of you as a recluse


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 23, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today someone asks you %to define the soul
Last Line: In what you claim is flimsy air


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 1, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In school you lean over a microscope
Last Line: Heaven visible like stars %when they are


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 10, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So it begins, the long days fringed
Last Line: Your heart lost in it


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 11, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider how the moment enters itself
Last Line: Your eyes back to time, %that slow surprise


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 12, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at you. A careless stranger
Last Line: In its pride, thinks itself alone


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 13, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To a new friend you write, %'to mulitply the harbors
Last Line: Not turn to me late %as to any port


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 14, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing is as it was. %remember girlhood's promises
Last Line: To watch you save yourself


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 15, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are not keepers of the treasure
Last Line: All the heart can and cannot resist


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 16, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not possible,' you cry %when you hear the news
Last Line: It exhausts itself, %alive, but nothing opened


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 17, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you tell yourself %when dreams skitter away
Last Line: But put coins in my palm %as if I were the beggar


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 18, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, when I speak to myself, %do I so often think of you?
Last Line: The labyrinth of my love %as if she had a map


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 19, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter, you need not %say anything, I know
Last Line: You will not look again


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 2, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you think it means %that you dream of your father's house
Last Line: Name its richness desire


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 20, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What happens when only fragments
Last Line: I can carry anything %and not feel the weight?


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 21, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see that you've entered %the amber world again
Last Line: Your skin darkens and plumps, %something lets go


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 22, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know it was meant for me, %this new sign of impatience
Last Line: One plot, small, obdurate


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 24, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You think I am never alone. %in one sense it's true --
Last Line: I am there, in the room, %equally removed


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 3, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now your mother sleeps while you
Last Line: What does he want to hear


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 4, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You know the trees sing differently
Last Line: And that you hear dissonance %under the cardinal's call


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 5, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter, why do you keep %demanding miracles? Even I
Last Line: At the doorstep %as you intend


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 6, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You honor your father, %letting him think you
Last Line: To riverbeds and the furrows %beneath mountains


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 8, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know what you want to believe
Last Line: Nothing left to say she'd even been


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON: 9, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do I understand you right?
Last Line: With furniture you could not abide


LETTERS BACK: GOD RESPONDS TO EMILY DICKINSON:7, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every day you advance a little
Last Line: Will still be mine


LETTERS TO DEAD IMAGISTS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Emily dickinson
Last Line: Nor the mumblings and shots that rise from dreams on call.
Subject(s): Crane, Stephen (1871-1900); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I asked no other thing
Last Line: "that we can show to-day?"
Subject(s): Life


LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Superiority to fate
Last Line: Subsists till paradise.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 621;poem: 687
Subject(s): Life


LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our share of night to bear
Last Line: Afterwards—day!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 621;poem: 687
Subject(s): Life


LIFE IS DEATH WE'RE LENGTHY AT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 50


LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Dare not venture now
Variant Title(s): Poem: 698; Poem: 72
Subject(s): Human Behavior


LIFE THAT TIED TOO TIGHT ESCAPES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: If he is caught at all
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1535; Poem: 155
Subject(s): Escapes


LIFE WE HAVE IS VERY GREAT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Reduces it to none
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1162; Poem: 117
Subject(s): Life


LIFE, AND DEATH, AND GIANTS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Maintain — by accident that they proclaim


LIFT IT - WITH THE FEATHERS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who has paradise
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1348; Poem: 136


LIGHT IS SUFFICIENT TO ITSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Precisely, as to you
Variant Title(s): Poem: 506; Poem: 86


LIGHTING PLAYETH -- ALL THE WHILE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor stop to cross ourselves
Variant Title(s): Poem: 595; Poem: 63


LIGHTLY STEPPED A YELLOW STAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: You are punctual
Subject(s): God


LIGHTNING IS A YELLOW FORK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The appartus of the dark %to ignorance revealed
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1173; Poem: 114
Subject(s): Lightning


LIKE BROOMS OF STEEL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Was all the one that played
Subject(s): Winter


LIKE EYES THAT LOOKED ON WASTES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We perish tho' we reign
Variant Title(s): Poem: 458; Poem: 69


LIKE FLOWERS THAT HEARD THE TALE OF DEWS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A too presumptuous psalm
Subject(s): Nature


LIKE HER THE SAINTS RETIRE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Reasons the daffofil %profound!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 150; Poem: 6


LIKE MEN AND WOMEN SHADOWS WALK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And boroughs where we live


LIKE MIGHTY FOOTLIGHTS BURNED THE RED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Myself distinguished god
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Forests; Light


LIKE RAIN IT SOUNDED TILL IT CURVED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then like elijah rode away %upon a wheel of cloud
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1235; Poem: 124
Subject(s): Rivers; Wind


LIKE SOME OLD-FASHIONED MIRACLE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And ear — and heaven — numb
Subject(s): Summer; Childhood Memories


LIKE TIME'S INSIDIOUS WRINKLE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That none can punish him
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1236; Poem: 126
Subject(s): Time


LIKE TRAINS OF CARS ON TRACKS OF PLUSH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To vanquish other blooms
Subject(s): Bees


LILAC IS AN ANCIENT SHRUB, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But let not the revelation %by these be detained
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1241; Poem: 126
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs


LITTLE DOG THAT WAGS HIS TAIL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Beseech each little boy
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1185; Poem: 123
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs


LITTLE SNOW WAS HERE AND THERE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Too obdurate for snows
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1444; Poem: 148
Subject(s): Snow


LIVES HE IN ANY OTHER WORLD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Twas all distinct to me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1557; Poem: 158


LOCKET FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She walked into the church in early spring
Last Line: Read it with love: the lover bears no name; %her lineage lies golden on her throat


LONELINESS ONE DARE NOT SOUND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Its caverns and its corridors %illuminate or seal
Variant Title(s): Poem: 777; Poem: 87


LONESOME FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Too sure - to dote upon!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 262; Poem: 32


LONG YEARS APART CAN MAKE NO, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Will stir and understand
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1383; Poem: 140


LONGEST DAY THAT GOD APPOINTS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Amd then it must return
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1769; Poem: 115


LONGING IS LIKE THE SEED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What constancy must be achieved %before it see the sun
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1255; Poem: 129
Subject(s): Longing


LOSS OF SOMETHING EVER FELT I, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For the site of the kingdom of heaven
Variant Title(s): Poem: 959; Poem: 107


LOVE - IS THAT LATER THING THAN DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A smaller than the large
Variant Title(s): Poem: 924; Poem: 84
Subject(s): Love


LOVE -- THOU ART HIGH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love -- thou art high
Last Line: Nicknamed by god %eternity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 453; Poem: 45
Subject(s): Love


LOVE A LIFE CAN SHOW BELOW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then -- flings in paradise
Variant Title(s): Poem: 673; Poem: 28


LOVE CAN DO ALL BUT RAISE THE DEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Till it is out of gaze
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1731; Poem: 175


LOVE IS ANTERIOR TO LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The exponent of breath
Subject(s): Love – Nature Of


LOVE IS DONE WHEN LOVE'S BEGUN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Truth adjourn your boon %without day
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1485; Poem: 152
Subject(s): Love


LOVE POEM FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by BRUCE MEYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamt of your black house
Last Line: And kiss in the mortified land
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


LOVE RECKONS BY ITSELF ALONE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Itself is all the like it has
Subject(s): Love – Nature Of


LOVE'S STRICKEN 'WHY', by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The hugest hearts that break
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1368; Poem: 139
Subject(s): Grief


LOW AT MY PROBLEM BENDING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They perplexity?
Subject(s): Problems


LUCK IS NOT CHANCE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is that old fashioned coin %we spurned
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1350; Poem: 136
Subject(s): Luck


MAKE ME A PICTURE OF THE SUN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Let's play those -- never come!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 188; Poem: 23
Subject(s): Imagination


MALAY TOOK THE PEARL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Alike to him - one
Variant Title(s): Poem: 451; Poem: 45


MAMA NEVER FORGETS HER BIRDS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: She 'notices' above
Variant Title(s): Poem: 130; Poem: 16
Subject(s): Birds; Mothers


MAN MAY MAKE A REMARK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Powder exists in charcoal -- %before it exists in fire
Variant Title(s): Poem: 952; Poem: 91


MANNER OF ITS DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And customs at 'st. James'!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 468; Poem: 60
Subject(s): Andre, John (1750-1780); Death; Soldiers


MANY A PHRASE HAS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hush - only to me!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 276; Poem: 33
Subject(s): Language


MANY CROSS THE RHINE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: From my brown cigar
Variant Title(s): Poem: 107; Poem: 12
Subject(s): Germany


MARCH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We like march, his shoes are purple, / he is new and high
Last Line: On his british sky.
Subject(s): March (month)


MARCH IS THE MONTH OF EXPECTATION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Betrays a boy
Subject(s): March (month)


MARGARET DIORIO, by THOMAS DORSETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wrote about emily dickinson, chagall
Last Line: What is the end of life but a bouquet?'


MARTYR POETS - DID NOT TELL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Some seek in art - the art of peace
Variant Title(s): Poem: 544; Poem: 66
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Poetry And Poets


ME FROM MYSELF -- TO BANISH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Except by abdication-- %me - of me?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 642; Poem: 70
Subject(s): Self


ME PROVE IT NOW - WHOEVER DOUBT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Themselves were quick with thee!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 537; Poem: 63


ME! COME! MY DAZZLED FACE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That they—pronounce my name
Subject(s): Fame; Immortality; Heaven


ME, CHANGE! ME, ALTER!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: At day's superior close!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 268; Poem: 28


MEETING BY ACCIDENT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As midas is of gold
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1548; Poem: 157
Subject(s): Fate


MEMORIALS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death sets a thing significant / the eye had hurried by
Last Line: Too costly for repairs.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


MERCHANT OF THE PICTURESQUE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As to behold his ample flight
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1131; Poem: 113


MIDSUMMER, WAS IT, WHEN THEY DIED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Through hazel of burial
Variant Title(s): Poem: 962; Poem: 82
Subject(s): Death


MIEN TO MOVE A QUEEN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And just - revere
Variant Title(s): Poem: 254; Poem: 28


MIND LIVES ON THE HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The aliment of it %so absolute
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1355; Poem: 138


MINE BY THE RIGHT OF THE WHITE ELECTION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mine — long as ages steal!
Subject(s): Innocence


MINE ENEMY IS GROWING OLD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tis starving makes it fat —
Subject(s): Enemies; Aging; Revenge


MINE THERE IS NO MAN WOULD OWN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For indies in the ground!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1117; Poem: 116
Subject(s): Mines And Miners


MOB WITHIN THE HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In a congenial ground
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1745; Poem: 176


MONTHS HAVE ENDS - THE YEARS - A KNOT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They cannot put away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 416; Poem: 42
Subject(s): Time


MORE LIFE WENT OUT, WHEN HE WENT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That popocatapel exists - %or etna's scarlets, choose
Variant Title(s): Poem: 422; Poem: 41


MORE THAN THE GRAVE IS CLOSED TO ME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The crash of nothing, yet of all - %how similar appears
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1503; Poem: 153
Subject(s): Death


MORNING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will there really be a morning
Last Line: Where the place called morning lies.
Subject(s): Imagination; Morning; Night; Time; Fancy; Bedtime


MORNING AFTER WOE [OR, WO], by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Some key of calvary
Variant Title(s): Poem: 364; Poem: 39


MORNING IS DUE TO ALL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The auroral light
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1577; Poem: 162


MORNING IS THE PLACE FOR DEW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Dukes — for setting sun!
Subject(s): Morning; Noon; Night


MORNING THAT COMES BUT ONCE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Make life a sudden price
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1610; Poem: 164


MORNING' MEANS 'MILKING' TO THE FARMER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Faith — the experiment of our lord
Subject(s): Mornings


MORNS LIKE THESE WE PARTED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And this linnet flew!
Subject(s): Death


MOST IMPORTANT POPULATION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The grass is full
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1746; Poem: 176


MOST PATHETIC THING I DO, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Goliah - so would you
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1290; Poem: 134
Subject(s): Longing


MOST SHE TOUCHED ME BY HER MUTENESS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Making gratitude
Variant Title(s): Poem: 760; Poem: 48


MOST TRIUMPHANT BIRD I EVER KNEW OR MET, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To what delicious accident %does finest glory fit!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1265; Poem: 128
Subject(s): Birds


MOTH THE HUE OF THIS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of trinkets, as a girl
Variant Title(s): Poem: 84


MOTHER NATURE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature, the gentlest mother / impatient of no child
Last Line: Wills silence everywhere.
Subject(s): Nature; Religion; Theology


MOUNTAINS GROW UNNOTICED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For fellowship at night
Variant Title(s): Poem: 757; Poem: 76
Subject(s): Mountains


MOUNTAINS STOOD IN HAZE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We felt how neighborly a thing %was the invisible
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1278; Poem: 122


MRS. WADSWORTH'S LETTER TO EMILY DICKINSON, by AGNES GERGELY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here we re quoting your stanzas, not
Last Line: Can you see now, in retrospect, up there; %you were a woman and you wrote. Irredeemable


MUCH MADNESS IS DIVINEST SENSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And handled with a chain
Subject(s): Insanity


MUSICIANS WRESTLE EVERYWHERE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Please god – shall ascertain!
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


MUST BE A WOE [OR, WO], by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To pay a cross
Variant Title(s): Poem: 538; Poem: 57


MUTE THY CORONATION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Master, it was I
Variant Title(s): Poem: 133; Poem: 15


MY BEST ACQUAINTANCES ARE THOSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My constant reverential face %sufficient courtesy
Variant Title(s): Poem: 932; Poem: 106


MY COCOON TIGHTENS - COLORS TEASE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I take the clue divine
Subject(s): Butterflies


MY COUNTRY NEED NOT CHANGE HER GOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That taunts her bayonet.
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States


MY EYE IS FULLER THAN MY VASE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: East india - for you!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 202; Poem: 22


MY FAITH IS LARGER THAN THE HILLS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Lest firmament should fail for me %the rivet in the bands
Variant Title(s): Poem: 489; Poem: 76
Subject(s): Faith


MY FIRST WELL DAY SINCE MANY ILL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: One earns by measuring the grace %then measuring the sun
Variant Title(s): Poem: 288; Poem: 57


MY FRIEND ATTACKS MY FRIEND!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And then to glory run!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 103; Poem: 11


MY FRIEND MUST BE A BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thou puzzlest me!
Subject(s): Birds; Bees


MY GARDEN - LIKE THE BEACH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: She fetches such as me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 469; Poem: 48
Subject(s): Summer


MY GOD - HE SEES THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In thy long race with him!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1175; Poem: 116
Subject(s): God


MY HEART RAN SO TO THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Basking in bethleem %ere I be there
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1237; Poem: 133


MY HEART UPON A LITTLE PLATE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Might it be an apricot!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1027; Poem: 103
Subject(s): Hearts


MY LIFE HAD STOOD - A LOADED GUN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For I have the power to kill, %without - the power to die
Variant Title(s): Fascicle 34 Poem 9; Poem: 754; Poem: 76


MY MAKER LET ME BE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I more should miss
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1403; Poem: 146


MY NOSEGAYS ARE FOR CAPTIVES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And I, no other prayer
Subject(s): Afterlife


MY PERIOD HAD COME FOR PRAYER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I worshipped -- did not 'pray'
Variant Title(s): Poem: 564; Poem: 52
Subject(s): Prayer; Worship


MY PORTION IS DEFEAT - TODAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who to have had it, would have been %contender - to die
Variant Title(s): Poem: 639; Poem: 70
Subject(s): War


MY REWARD FOR BEING WAS THIS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The ballots of eternity, will show just that
Variant Title(s): Poem: 343; Poem: 37


MY RIVER RUNS TO THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Say — sea — take me!
Subject(s): Rivers; Sea


MY SEASON'S FURTHEST FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A grace without a friend
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1019; Poem: 103


MY SOUL ACCUSED ME AND I QUALIED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A finger of enamelled fire
Variant Title(s): Poem: 753; Poem: 79
Subject(s): Soul


MY TRIUMPH LASTED TILL THE DRUMS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is nothing to the dead
Subject(s): Death


MY TRIUMPH LASTED TILL THE DRUMS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A bayonet's contrition %is nothing to the dead
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1227; Poem: 121
Subject(s): War


MY WARS ARE LAID AWAY IN BOOKS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And such a scarcity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1549; Poem: 157


MY WHEEL IS IN THE DARK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Flinging the problem back, at you and I
Subject(s): Travel


MY WORTHINESS IS ALL MY DOUBT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Unto her sacrament 
Subject(s): Faith


MYSELF CAN READ THE TELEGRAMS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But sweeter so than mine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1089; Poem: 104
Subject(s): News


MYSELF WAS FORMED -- A CARPENTER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Myself was formed -- a carpenter
Last Line: Against the man - persuaded - %we - temples build -- I said
Variant Title(s): Poem: 488; Poem: 47


MYSTERIES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The murmur of a bee / a witchcraft yieldeth me
Last Line: Must tell!
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


NAME - OF IT - IS 'AUTUMN', by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon vermilion wheels
Variant Title(s): Poem: 656; Poem: 46
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons


NATURE - SOMETIMES SEARS A SAPLING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Die oftener - not so vitally
Variant Title(s): Poem: 314; Poem: 45
Subject(s): Nature


NATURE AFFECTS TO BE SEDATE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Unto a juggler turned
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1170; Poem: 117


NATURE AND GOD I NEITHER KNEW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or mercury's affair
Variant Title(s): Poem: 835; Poem: 80


NATURE ASSIGNS THE SUN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That is astrology
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1336; Poem: 137
Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Astronomy And Astronomers


NATURE CAN DO NO MORE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nature's imposing negative %nulls opportunity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1673; Poem: 172
Subject(s): Nature


NATURE IS WHAT WE SEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To her simplicity
Subject(s): Nature


NATURE RARER USES YELLOW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like a lover's words
Subject(s): Nature; Colors


NEARNESS TO TREMENDOUSNESS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In acres -- its location %is illocality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 963; Poem: 82


NEEDLESS FEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Afraid? Of whom am I afraid
Last Line: As soon impeach my crown!
Subject(s): Death; Easter; Holidays; Dead, The; The Resurrection


NEVER FOR SOCIETY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Need you unto him
Variant Title(s): Poem: 746; Poem: 78


NEW ENGLAND MIND (FOR EMILY DICKINSON AND PERRY MILLER), by JOHN WILLIAM ELSBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: T %hed
Last Line: E -- dit
Subject(s): New England


NIGHT THERE LAY THE DAYS BETWEEN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Till it be night no more
Variant Title(s): Poem: 471; Poem: 60
Subject(s): Night


NO AUTUMN'S INTERCEPTING CHILL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And asiatic rest. 
Subject(s): Autumn


NO BOBOLINK REVERSE HIS SINGING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Brave bobolink
Variant Title(s): Poem: 755; Poem: 76
Subject(s): Bobolinks


NO CROWD THAT HAS OCCURRED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To universe and me?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 515; Poem: 65


NO LADDER NEEDS THE BIRD BUT SKIES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That wafts the cherubim
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1574; Poem: 160


NO LIFE CAN POMPLESS PASS AWAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A miracle for all!
Subject(s): Death


NO MAN CAN COMPASS A DESPAIR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That pilot him along
Variant Title(s): Poem: 477; Poem: 71
Subject(s): Pain


NO MAN SAW AWE, NOR TO HIS HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That very physiognomy %I am convinced was this
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1733; Poem: 134
Subject(s): Faces


NO MATTER WHERE THE SAINTS ABIDE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Accompanies a star
Subject(s): Saints


NO NOTICE GAVE SHE, BUT A CHANGE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As some she never knew
Variant Title(s): Poem: 804; Poem: 86


NO OTHER CAN REDUCE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Jehovah's estimate
Subject(s): Morality


NO PASSENGER WAS KNOWN TO FLEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Contrives that none go out again
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1406; Poem: 145
Subject(s): Memory


NO PRISONER BE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Himself abide be thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 720; Poem: 74
Subject(s): Freedom


NO RACK CAN TORTURE ME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So's liberty
Subject(s): Liberty


NO ROMANCE SOLD UNTO, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To credit — 'tis'nt true
Subject(s): Fiction


NO ROSE, YET FELT MYSELF A'BLOOM, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 19


NOBODY KNOWS THIS LITTLE ROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For such as thee to die!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 11; Poem: 3
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses


NONE CAN EXPERIENCE STINT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The poverty that was not wealth - %cannot be indigence
Variant Title(s): Poem: 771; Poem: 87
Subject(s): Poverty


NONE WHO SAW IT EVER TOLD IT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Would you serve it so?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1110; Poem: 113


NOON IS THE HINGE OF DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Till all the world is ajar
Variant Title(s): Poem: 931; Poem: 106
Subject(s): Day


NOR MOUNTAIN HINDER ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who's cordillera?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1029; Poem: 104


NORTH LESS BLEAK THAN IT USED TO, by STEVE TIMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Emily dickinson wrote things cum letters
Last Line: We can hear if we don't stop to


NOT 'REVELATION' - 'TIS - THAT WAITS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But our unfurnished eyes
Variant Title(s): Poem: 685; Poem: 50
Subject(s): Religion


NOT ALL DIE EARLY, DYING YOUNG, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not period that died
Variant Title(s): Poem: 990; Poem: 93
Subject(s): Death


NOT ANY HIGHER STANDS THE GRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A summer's afternoon
Subject(s): Equality


NOT ANY MORE TO BE LACKED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Plated the residue of adz %with monotony
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1344; Poem: 138


NOT ANY SUNNY TONE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: How dead we are 
Subject(s): Death


NOT AT HOME TO CALLERS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wishing you good day
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1590; Poem: 160


NOT KNOWING WHEN THE DAWN WILL COME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or billows, like a shore
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life


NOT ONE BY HEAVEN DEFRAUDED STAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Secreted in his will


NOT PROBABLE - THE BAREST CHANCE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oh phantom queen!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 346; Poem: 67


NOT SEEING, STILL WE KNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is eden's innuendo %'if you dare?'
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1518; Poem: 156


NOT SICKNESS STAINS THE BRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But an adjourning heart
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1613; Poem: 166


NOT SO THE INFINITE RELATIONS BELOW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A fallacy, a figment, we knew
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1040; Poem: 99


NOT THAT HE GOES - WE LOVE HIM MORE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For what he moved, he made
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1435; Poem: 146


NOT TO DISCOVER WEAKNESS IS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What skilful pointers move
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1054; Poem: 101


NOT WHAT WE DID SHALL BE THE TEST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Had we diviner been
Variant Title(s): Poem: 823; Poem: 97


NOT WHEN WE KNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: At home - in paradise
Subject(s): Heaven


NOT WITH A CLUB THE HEART IS BROKEN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The universe is yours
Subject(s): Shame


NOTICE THAT IS CALLED THE SPRING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is nothing but a bier
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1310; Poem: 131
Subject(s): Spring


NOW I KNEW I LOST HER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But the restitution %of idolatry
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1219; Poem: 127
Subject(s): Homosexuality


NOW I LAY THEE DOWN TO SLEEP, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I pray the lord thy soul to make
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1539; Poem: 157
Subject(s): Prayer


NOW MATTER HOW SWEET, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Won't you wish you'd smiled just %me upon
Variant Title(s): Poem: 70


OBTAINING BUT OUR OWN EXTENT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That bore him from the tomb
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1543; Poem: 157
Subject(s): Jesus Christ


OF BEING IS A BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For ecstasy of it
Variant Title(s): Poem: 462; Poem: 65
Subject(s): Birds; Life


OF BRUSSELS IT WAS NOT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upholsterer of the pond
Variant Title(s): Poem: 510; Poem: 60


OF CONSCIOUSNESS, HER AWFUL MATE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The escapade from god
Variant Title(s): Poem: 894; Poem: 107


OF COURSE - I PRAYED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than this smart misery
Subject(s): Prayer


OF COURSE - I PRAYED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than this smart misery
Variant Title(s): Poem: 376; Poem: 58
Subject(s): Prayer


OF DEATH I TRY TO THINK LIKE THIS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The boldest leaped, and clutched it
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1558; Poem: 158


OF GLORY NOT A BEAM IS LEFT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The living, for the stars
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1647; Poem: 168


OF GOD WE ASK ONE FAVOR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We reprimand the happiness %that too competes with heaven
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1601; Poem: 167
Subject(s): Forgiveness


OF LIFE TO OWN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But never touch the reservoir
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1294; Poem: 132
Subject(s): Life


OF NATURE I SHALL HAVE ENOUGH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Entitled to a bumble bee's %familiarities
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1220; Poem: 117


OF NEARNESS TO HER SUNDERED THINGS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And 'twas they, and not ourself %that mourned
Variant Title(s): Poem: 337; Poem: 60


OF PARADISE' EXISTENCE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By its bisecting %messenger
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1411; Poem: 142
Subject(s): Heaven


OF PAUL AND SILAS IT IS SAID, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That an immortal binds silas, saint
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1166; Poem: 120
Subject(s): Immortality; Paul, Saint (1st Century)


OF SILKEN SPEECH AND SPECIOUS SHOE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Continual ban propoundeth he %continual divorce
Variant Title(s): Poem: 896; Poem: 107


OF SO DIVINE A LOSS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That such a bliss has been
Subject(s): Solitude


OF THE HEART THAT GOES IN, AND CLOSES THE DOOR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Can never be fitted again?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1098; Poem: 110


OF THEIR [OR, HIS] PECULIAR LIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To seek them by
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1362; Poem: 139


OF THIS IS DAY COMPOSED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Remedilessly leave


OF TOLLING BELL I ASK THE CAUSE?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A good news should be given
Subject(s): Heaven; Bells; News


OF TRIBULATION THESE ARE THEY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "and all we said — was ""saved""!"
Subject(s): Salvation


OF WHOM SO DEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As sunset on the snow
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1504; Poem: 153


OF YELLOW WAS THE OUTER SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Whose seam could not be shewn
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1676; Poem: 173


OH FUTURE! THOU SECRETED PEACE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Advancing to thy den
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1631; Poem: 165
Subject(s): Future Life


OH GIVE IT MOTION - DECK IT SWEET, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That will not lift its hat
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1527; Poem: 155


OH SHADOW ON THE GRASS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oh unelected face
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1237; Poem: 118


OH SUMPTUOUS MOMENT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ask him unto the gallows led -- %with morning in the sky
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1125; Poem: 118


OH WHAT A GRACE IS THIS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Without diminuet proceed!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1615; Poem: 166


OH, HONEY OF AN HOUR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My unfrequented flower, %deserving be
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1734; Poem: 147


OLD FAVORITES, by GERRIT HENRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Favorite film director: alfred hitchcock
Last Line: Favorite poet: emily dickinson


OLD MAN SAID HE ONCE SAW EMILY DICKINSON, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unhappy face - tight rich white face
Last Line: That is, nothing that I could see
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory


ON A COLUMNAR SELF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And that assembly - not far off %from the furthest spirit - god
Variant Title(s): Poem: 789; Poem: 74
Subject(s): God


ON EMILY DICKINSON, by HELEN A. PINKERTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Daimon or angel, in her wrath
Last Line: Unending light, begins


ON MY VOLCANO GROWS THE GRASS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Would populate with awe my solitude
Subject(s): Solitude


ON REALIZING I AM NOT EMILY DICKINSON..., by ALMA LUZ VILLANUEVA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems like poetry is like %love letters, like they should
Last Line: Here. I think I'm hungry. %I want to love


ON SITTING DOWN TO READ THE DUST JACKET ONCE AGAIN, by THOMAS CARPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Phoebus, what talent! When she turns her lyre on
Last Line: Success is sweet. This poet has begun %to taste its liquor. --emily dickinson


ON SUCH A NIGHT, OR SUCH A NIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Should reach so small a goal!
Subject(s): Children


ON THAT DEAR FRAME THE YEARS HAD WORN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Denying that they died
Variant Title(s): Poem: 940; Poem: 92
Subject(s): Death


ON THAT SPECIFIC PILLOW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is all the soul can do
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1533; Poem: 155


ON THE BLEAKNESS OF MY LOT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fructified in sand
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening


ON THE WORLD YOU COLORED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In the goods of day
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1171; Poem: 120


ON THIS LONG STORM THE RAINBOW ROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Must awaken her!
Subject(s): Storms; Death


ONCE MORE, MY NOW BEWILDERED DOVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: There may yet be land!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 48; Poem: 6


ONE AND ONE ARE ONE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For the soul's comprimising
Variant Title(s): Poem: 497; Poem: 76


ONE ANGUISH IN A CROWD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When once it has begun
Variant Title(s): Poem: 527; Poem: 56
Subject(s): Terror


ONE BLESSING HAD I THAN THE REST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I speculate no more
Subject(s): Dreams; Prayer; Heaven


ONE CROWN NOT ANY SEEK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Religion


ONE CROWN THAT NO ONE SEEKS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That coronation pierces him %he recollects it well
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1735; Poem: 175
Subject(s): Bible; Pilate, Pontius; Religion


ONE CRUCIFIXION IS RECORDED -- ONLY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: There's newer - nearer crucifixion %than that
Variant Title(s): Poem: 553; Poem: 67
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Pain


ONE DAY IS THERE OF THE SERIES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Twere thanksgiving day
Subject(s): Thanksgiving Day


ONE DIGNITY DELAYS FOR ALL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And claim the rank to die!
Subject(s): Funerals


ONE JOY OF SO MUCH ANGUISH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In death's immediately
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1420; Poem: 145


ONE LIFE OF SO MUCH CONSEQUENCE!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Far down the dustiest road!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 248; Poem: 27


ONE OF THE ONES THAT MIDAS TOUCHED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon the apple tree


ONE SISTER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One sister have I in our [or, the] house
Last Line: Sue -- forevermore!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 14;poem: 5


ONE THING OF IT WE BORROW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The anguish of avarice %defrays the dross of it
Variant Title(s): Poem: 146
Subject(s): Greed


ONE YEAR AGO - JOTS WHAT?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ah, sir, none!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 296; Poem: 30


ONLY A SHRINE, BUT MINE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thou knowest, though, so why tell thee?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 918; Poem: 98


ONLY GOD DETECT THE SORROW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Just as sure
Variant Title(s): Poem: 626; Poem: 69
Subject(s): God


ONLY NEWS I KNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or admirabler show %I'll tell it you
Variant Title(s): Poem: 827; Poem: 82


ONLY PORTRAIT OF EMILY DICKINSON, by IRENE MCKINNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The straight neck held up out of the lace


OPENING AND THE CLOSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In that they decayed
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1047; Poem: 108


OPINION IS A FLITTING THING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Possess the oldest one
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1455; Poem: 149
Subject(s): Truth


OUR LITTLE KINSMEN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our little kinsmen after rain
Last Line: With modesties enlarged
Variant Title(s): Poem: 885; Poem: 93


OUR LITTLE SECRETS SLINK AWAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With this that may compare
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1326; Poem: 131
Subject(s): Secrets


OUR LIVES ARE SWISS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Forever intervene!
Subject(s): Alps


OUR OWN POSSESSIONS - THOUGH OUR OWN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Remembering the dimensions %of possibility
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1208; Poem: 126


OURSELVES WE DO INTER WITH SWEET DERISION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That doubts as fervently as it believes
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1144; Poem: 144
Subject(s): Religion


OURSELVES WERE WED ONE SUMMER - DEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But you - were crowned in june
Variant Title(s): Poem: 631; Poem: 59
Subject(s): Homosexuality


OUT OF SIGHT? WHAT OF THAT?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hide too from thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 70


OUTER - FROM THE INNER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Eyes were not meant to know
Variant Title(s): Poem: 451; Poem: 45


OVER AND OVER, LIKE A TUNE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: At the lord's right hand
Variant Title(s): Poem: 367; Poem: 40


OVER THE FENCE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He'd climb - if he could!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 251; Poem: 27


PAIN EXPANDS THE TIME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Gamuts of eternities %are as they were not
Variant Title(s): Poem: 967; Poem: 83
Subject(s): Pain


PAIN HAS BUT ONE ACQUAINTANCE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Amd then absconds from sight
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1049; Poem: 111
Subject(s): Pain


PALLBEARERS AT EMILY DICKINSON'S FUNERAL, by DANIEL TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She died at sunset facing west
Last Line: And resurrection's skiffs embark %at dew's velocity
Subject(s): Death; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Funerals


PANG IS MORE CONSPICUOUS IN SPRING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Till they had moved a stone
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1530; Poem: 154


PAPA ABOVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wheel solemnly away!
Subject(s): God


PAPA ABOVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wheel solemnly away!
Subject(s): Heaven


PARADISE IS OF THE OPTION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Adam and repeal
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1069; Poem: 112
Subject(s): Eden


PARADISE IS THAT OLD MANSION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bankrupt once through his excesses
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1119; Poem: 114
Subject(s): Moderation


PARASOL IS THE UMBRELLA'S DAUGHTER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And borrowed to this day
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1747; Poem: 176


PARTAKE AS DOTH THE BEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In sicily
Variant Title(s): Poem: 994; Poem: 80


PARTING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My life closed twice before its close
Last Line: And all we need of hell.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Immortality; Love; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


PARTING WITH THEE RELUCTANTLY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Remembers it forgot
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1614; Poem: 166


PASS TO THY RENDEZVOUS OF LIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Which thou hast leaped across!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1564; Poem: 162


PATIENCE HAS A QUIET OUTER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Through the quivering
Variant Title(s): Poem: 926; Poem: 84
Subject(s): Patience


PATTERN OF THE SUN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To be a sun
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1550; Poem: 158
Subject(s): Sun


PEACE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I many times thought peace had come
Last Line: Before the harbor lie.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 739
Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Longing; Peace


PEACE IS A FICTION OF OUR FAITH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That never did alight
Variant Title(s): Poem: 912; Poem: 97
Subject(s): Peace


PEDIGREE OF HONEY (DIFF. VERS.), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A clover, any time, to him %is aristocracy
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1627 (2); Poem: 165
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


PERCEPTION OF AN OBJECT COSTS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That situates so far 
Subject(s): Perception; Worth


PERHAPS I ASKED TOO LARGE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But smaller bundles - cram
Variant Title(s): Poem: 352; Poem: 35


PERHAPS THEY DO NOT GO SO FAR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And estimates us there
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1399; Poem: 145


PERHAPS YOU THINK ME STOOPING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Until it bend as low as death %redignified, above?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 273; Poem: 83


PERHAPS YOU'D LIKE TO BUY A FLOWER?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But not an hour more!
Subject(s): Daffodils


PERIL AS A POSSESSION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As clean as fire
Subject(s): Danger


PIGMY SERAPHS - GONE ASTRAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To subdue the bumblebee
Subject(s): Bees


PILE OF YEARS IS NOT SO HIGH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And catch me ere I drop
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1507; Poem: 133


PINE BOUGH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 20


PINK POEMS: 1. EMILY DICKINSON PINK, by DAVID TRINIDAD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Frequently the woods are pink
Last Line: To that pink stranger we call dust


PINK, SMALL, AND PUNCTUAL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nature forswears / antiquity
Subject(s): Flowers


PIT - BUT HEAVEN OVER IT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Seed - summer - tomb - %whose doom to whom?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1712; Poem: 50


PLATED LIFE DIVERSIFIED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Whole chasoses on him
Variant Title(s): Poem: 806; Poem: 86


PLAYMATES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God permits industrious angels / afternoons to play
Last Line: After playing crown!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 231;poem: 245


POEM: 1046, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What twigs we held by


POEM: 1099, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At half past three


POEM: 1104, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The crickets sang


POEM: 1126, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His bill is locked -- his eye estranged


POEM: 1129, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I fit for them -- I seek the dark


POEM: 1188, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A not admitting of the wound


POEM: 1216, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wind that rose though not a leaf


POEM: 1244, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly -- fly -- but as you fly


POEM: 1252, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the meek that valor wear


POEM: 1321, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When continents expire


POEM: 1357, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pink -- small -- and punctual


POEM: 1365, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crisis is sweet and yet the heart


POEM: 1434, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the stanch dust


POEM: 1452, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Incredible the lodging


POEM: 1478, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One note from one bird


POEM: 1492, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ferocious as a bee without a wing


POEM: 1516, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One thing of thee I covet


POEM: 1534, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not care -- why should I care


POEM: 1547, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bumble bee's religion


POEM: 1558, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blood is more showy than the breath


POEM: 1569, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Echo has no magistrate


POEM: 1591, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should see a single bird


POEM: 1639, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Few, yet enough


POEM: 1658, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Show me eternity, and I will show you memory


POEM: 1659, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I held it so tight that I lost it


POEM: 1660, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But that defeated accent


POEM: 1664, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In other motes


POEM: 1676, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A chastened grace is twice a grace


POEM: 1687, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty crowds me till I die


POEM: 1688, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Endanger it, and the demand


POEM: 1693, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer begins to have the look


POEM: 1766, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The waters chased him as he fled


POEM: 1767, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The words the happy say


POEM: 1782, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How dare the robins sing


POEM: 741, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature -- the gentlest mother is


POEM: 752, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, teneriffe -- receding mountain


POEM: 808, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lovely flowers embarrass me


POEM: 862, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the bleakness of my lot


POEM: 986, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where I am not afraid to go


POETS LIGHT BUT LAMPS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Disseminating their %circumference
Variant Title(s): Poem: 883; Poem: 93
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets


POOR LITTLE HEART!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wind and sun — wilt thee array!
Subject(s): Hearts


POPULAR HEART IS A CANNON FIRST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ditches for realms and a trip to jail %for a souvenir
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1226; Poem: 122


PORTRAITS ARE TO DAILY FACES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In a satin vest!
Subject(s): Portraits


POST-MORTEM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bustle in a house
Last Line: Until eternity.
Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement


POWER IS A FAMILIAR GROWTH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Disprove that and you may
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1238; Poem: 128


POWER TO BE TRUE TO YOU, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Until it showed too small
Variant Title(s): Poem: 464; Poem: 69
Subject(s): Fidelity


PRAISE IT, 'TIS DEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In recusance august
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1384; Poem: 140


PRAYER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At least to pray is left, is left
Last Line: Hast thou no arm for me?
Subject(s): Prayer


PRAYER IS THE LITTLE IMPLEMENT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Comprised in prayer 
Subject(s): Prayer


PRECIOUS TO ME - SHE STILL SHALL BE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When summer's everlasting dower - %confronts the dazzled bee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 727; Poem: 75
Subject(s): Homosexuality


PRECIOUS WORDS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He ate and drank the precious words
Last Line: A loosened spirit brings!
Subject(s): Books; Freedom; Reading; Liberty


PRESENTIMENT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn
Last Line: That darkness is about to pass.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 764;poem: 487


PRETTY RAIN FROM THOSE SWEET EAVES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Was fervor's sudden crown
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1426; Poem: 144
Subject(s): Rain


PRISON GETS TO BE A FRIEND, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: If that -- indeed -- redeem
Variant Title(s): Poem: 652; Poem: 45
Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners


PRODUCTS OF MY FARM ARE THESE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And fetch the acres in
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1025; Poem: 103
Subject(s): Harvest


PROMISE THIS - WHEN YOU BE DYING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Had I not been %most enough denied?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 648; Poem: 76
Subject(s): Death


PROOF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That I did always love
Last Line: But calvary.
Subject(s): Love


PROUD OF MY BROKEN HEART SINCE THOU DIDST BREAK IT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: See! I usurped thy crucifix to honor mine!
Subject(s): Hearts; Grief


PROVINCE OF THE SAVED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Till acclimated to -
Variant Title(s): Poem: 539; Poem: 65


PSALM FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by JACK AGUEROS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, %emily dickson spoke so nicely to me
Last Line: But lord, %how could I revise her writing


PUBLICATION IS THE AUCTION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But to reduce no human spirit %to disgrace of price
Variant Title(s): Poem: 709; Poem: 78


PUNGENT ATOM IN THE AIR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or dams of ecstasy
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1191; Poem: 122


PURPLE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Purple %the color of a queen, is this
Last Line: A rank for iodine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 776; Poem: 87
Subject(s): Purple (color); Witchcraft And Witches


PURPLE IS FASHIONABLE TWICE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To be an emperor
Variant Title(s): Poem: 980; Poem: 89
Subject(s): Purple (color)


PURSUING YOU IN YOUR TRANSITIONS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It only heard them play
Variant Title(s): Poem: 160


PUT UP MY LUTE!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Put up my lute!
Last Line: Maybe - that - would awaken - them!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 261; Poem: 32


QUITE EMPTY, QUITE AT REST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The birds she lost
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1606; Poem: 163
Subject(s): Robins


RAINBOW NEVER TELLS ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Except the birds were here!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 76; Poem: 9
Subject(s): Cato The Younger (95-46 B.c.); Rainbows


RAT SURRENDERED HERE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Repugnantly resigned %at last
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1340; Poem: 137
Subject(s): Rats; Temptation


RATHER ARID DELIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the rent unpaid
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1679; Poem: 171


RE:SEARCHES (FRAGMENTS, AFTER ANAKREON, FOR EMILY DICKINSON), by KATHLEEN FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside %(jittery %burned language)
Last Line: Language we come up against


REARRANGE A WIFE'S AFFECTION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Till the day its weary keeper %leads it through the grave to thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1737; Poem: 26


RECOLLECT THE FACE OF ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Paragon of chivalry
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1305; Poem: 130


RED BLAZE IS THE MORNING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Never yet consumed
Variant Title(s): Poem: 469; Poem: 60
Subject(s): Evening


RED SEA,' INDEED! TALK NOT TO ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What wine in the fatigue!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1642; Poem: 168
Subject(s): Red Sea


REHEARSAL TO OURSELVES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Remind us that we died
Variant Title(s): Poem: 379; Poem: 66


REMEMBER ME,' IMPLORED THE THIEF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Be unexpected friends
Subject(s): Hospitality; Courtesy


REMEMBRANCE HAS A REAR AND FRONT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ourselves be not pursued
Subject(s): Houses; Memor


REMORSE IS MEMORY AWAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The complement of hell
Subject(s): Grief


REMOVED FROM THE ACCIDENT OF LOSS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Awaited - even him
Variant Title(s): Poem: 417; Poem: 42


RENUNCIATION IS A PIERCING VIRTUE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Make that appear %smaller - that covered vision - here
Variant Title(s): Poem: 745; Poem: 78


REPORTLESS SUBJECTS, TO THE QUICK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But like an oriental tale %to others, fabulous
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1048; Poem: 111


RESTS AT NIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the sun go on
Variant Title(s): Poem: 490; Poem: 71


RETROSPECT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas just this time last year I died
Last Line: Themselves should come to me.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 445;poem: 344
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


RETURNING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I years had been from home
Last Line: Fled gasping from the house.
Subject(s): Homecoming


REVERSE CANNOT BEFALL THAT FINE PROSPERITY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Could mar it — if it found
Subject(s): Adversity


REVOLUTION IS THE POD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Test if it be dead
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1082; Poem: 104
Subject(s): Revolutions


RIBBONS OF THE YEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of the maker's girl?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 873; Poem: 106


RIDDLE WE CAN GUESS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As yesterday's surprise
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1222; Poem: 118
Subject(s): Riddles


RISK IS THE HAIR THAT HOLDS THE TUN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Persuasion as perdition, %decoys its traveller
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1239; Poem: 125


ROAD (VERSION 2, WITH ECHOES OF EMILY DICKINSON)., by BLAGA DIMITROVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When downward dips the roadway


ROAD TO PARADISE IS PLAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mines have no wings
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1491; Poem: 152
Subject(s): Heaven


ROAD WAS LIT WITH MOON AND STAR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But he indorsed the sheen
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1450; Poem: 147


ROBBED BY DEATH BUT THAT WAS EASY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Trying if it split
Variant Title(s): Poem: 971; Poem: 83


ROBIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The robin is a gabriel
Last Line: And sylvan punctuation
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1483; Poem: 152
Subject(s): Robins


ROBIN FOR THE CRUMB, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In silver chronicle
Variant Title(s): Poem: 864; Poem: 81


ROBIN'S MY CRITERION FOR TUNE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The queen, discerns like me -- %provincially -- hen --
Variant Title(s): Poem: 285; Poem: 25


S.ELIASON66:DOUBLE PORTRAIT OF EMILY DICKINSON AND THE REV.CHARLES WAD, by JANE COOPER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is just leaving the room
Last Line: E...I...Son! I made this. The date %name within name


SADDEST NOISE, THE SWEETEST NOISE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We wish the ear had not a heart %so dangerously near
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1764; Poem: 178
Subject(s): Birds; Noises; Sound


SAFE DESPAIR IT IS THAT RAVES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor is dying double
Subject(s): Life; Death; Despair


SAFE IN THEIR ALABASTER CHAMBERS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Soundless as dots on a disk of snow
Subject(s): Graves; Resurrection, The


SAID DEATH TO PASSION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the debate was done
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1033; Poem: 98


SANG FROM THE HEART, SIRE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: While I repeat your %hallowed name
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1059; Poem: 108


SATISFACTION - IS THE AGENT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Immortality contented %were anomaly
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1036; Poem: 98


SAUCER HOLDS A CUP, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The smallest citizen that flies %is heartier than we
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1374; Poem: 140
Subject(s): Squirrels


SAVIOR MUST HAVE BEEN A DOCILE GENTLEMAN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A rugged billion miles
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1487; Poem: 153
Subject(s): Christmas


SCATTERED WORDS FOR EMILY DICKINSON, by JANE COOPER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside the crate, dark
Last Line: There is room %for mystery


SCIENCE -- SO THE SAVANS SAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And countless butterfly!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 100; Poem: 14


SECRET (2), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fuzzy fellow without feet
Last Line: To tell the pretty secret %of the butterfly!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 173; Poem: 17
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


SECRET (3), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have a secret, just we three
Last Line: Then the whole secret will be out


SECRET TOLD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And whom you told it to - beside
Variant Title(s): Poem: 381; Poem: 64
Subject(s): Secrets


SECRETS' IS A DAILY WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Will emerge but once and dumb %to the sepulchre
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1385; Poem: 149
Subject(s): Secrets


SENSING DUNCAN, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you know this poem by emily dickinson? Asked
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Mothers


SEPTEMBER'S BACCALAUREATE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And turn philosopher
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1271; Poem: 131


SERVICE WITHOUT HOPE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That knows not an until
Variant Title(s): Poem: 779; Poem: 88


SETTING SAIL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Exultation is the going
Last Line: Of the first league out from land?
Subject(s): Life; Time


SEVERER SERVICE OF MYSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For being's malady
Variant Title(s): Poem: 786; Poem: 88


SEXTON! MY MASTER'S SLEEPING HERE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the troubadour
Variant Title(s): Poem: 75; Poem: 9


SHADE UPON THE MIND THERE PASSES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Why give it thou must take away %the loved?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 882; Poem: 111


SHALL I TAKE THEE, THE POET SAID, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not unto nomination %the cherubium reveal
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1126; Poem: 124
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets


SHAME IS THE SHAWL OF PINK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Shame is the tint divine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1412; Poem: 143
Subject(s): Shame


SHE BORE IT TILL THE SIMPLE VEINS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of whom we're whispering here?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 144; Poem: 8


SHE COULD NOT LIVE UPON THE PAST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The mother that has not a knell %for either duke or robin
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1505; Poem: 153
Subject(s): Mothers


SHE DEALT HER PRETTY WORDS LIKE BLADES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Just locking up — to die
Subject(s): Mortality


SHE DEALT HER PRETTY WORDS LIKE BLADES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She dealt her pretty words like blades
Last Line: Mortality's old custom- %just locking up to die
Variant Title(s): Poem: 458; Poem: 47
Subject(s): Language


SHE DIED AT PLAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her countenance as spray
Subject(s): Death; Play


SHE DWELLETH IN THE GROUND, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And fetch her thee -- be mine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 671; Poem: 74


SHE HIDETH HER THE LAST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The jelep of the bee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 557; Poem: 56


SHE LAID HER DOCILE CRESCENT DOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Before its emblem flew
Subject(s): Death


SHE LAY AS IF AT PLAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So light - so deep
Variant Title(s): Poem: 369; Poem: 41


SHE ROSE AS HIGH AS HIS OCCASION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For her brief crest
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1011; Poem: 101


SHE SIGHTS A BIRD -- SHE CHUCKLES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 35


SHE SLEPT BENEATH A TREE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And see!
Subject(s): Sleep


SHE SPED AS PETALS OF [OR, FROM] A ROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: She had begun to lie
Variant Title(s): Poem: 991; Poem: 89


SHE STAKED HER FEATHERS - GAINED AN ARC, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The bough where she was born
Variant Title(s): Poem: 798; Poem: 85


SHE WENT AS QUIET AS THE DEW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It's sorer to believe!
Subject(s): Death; Dew


SHE'S HAPPY, WITH A NEW CONTENT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To such a fate to minister
Variant Title(s): Poem: 535; Poem: 58


SHELLS FROM THE COAST MISTAKING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My period begin
Variant Title(s): Poem: 693; Poem: 71


SHOULD YOU BUT FAIL - AT SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Until he let you in!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 226; Poem: 27


SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And farewell, sir, to thee!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 2; Poem:


SILENCE IS ALL WE DREAD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Himself have not a face
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1251; Poem: 130
Subject(s): Silence


SIMPLICITY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How happy is the little stone
Last Line: In casual simplicity.
Subject(s): Simplicity; Stones; Granite; Rocks


SINGLE CLOVER PLANK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Did not so much as wring from him %a wandering 'alas'
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1343; Poem: 129
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


SINGLE SCREW OF FLESH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That not for all their heaven can boast %will let its keepsake - go
Variant Title(s): Poem: 263; Poem: 29


SISTER OF OPHIR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That purchase you
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1366 (b


SIZE CIRCUMSCRIBES -- IT HAS NO ROOM, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of calumnies or flies
Variant Title(s): Poem: 641; Poem: 70


SLEEP IS SUPPOSED TO BE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That is the break of day
Subject(s): Sleep' Morning; Death


SLEEPING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
Last Line: Nor once look up for noon?
Subject(s): Sleep


SMILING BACK FROM CORONATION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Stimulated - by the contrast - %unto misery
Variant Title(s): Poem: 385; Poem: 65


SMOULDERING EMBERS BLUSH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Prometheus never knew
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1132; Poem: 114
Subject(s): Fire


SNOW BENEATH WHOSE CHILLY SOFTNESS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wilt thou, austere snow?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 942; Poem: 92


SNOW THAT NEVER DRIFTS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As near as memory
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1133; Poem: 115
Subject(s): Snow


SNOWFLAKES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I counted till they danced so
Last Line: Are marshalled for a jig!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 36; Poem: 4
Subject(s): Snow


SO BASHFUL WHEN I SPIED HER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But I shall never tell!
Subject(s): Modesty


SO GAY A FLOWER BEREAVED THE MIND, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tradition ought to know
Subject(s): Beauty


SO GIVE ME BACK TO DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And all that heaven was
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1632; Poem: 165


SO GLAD WE ARE -- A STRANGER'D DEEM, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Could not decide between
Variant Title(s): Poem: 329; Poem: 60


SO HAS A DAISY VANISHED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are ye with god?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 19; Poem: 2
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers


SO I PULL MY STOCKINGS OFF, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Moses wasn't fairly used - %ananias wasn't
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1201; Poem: 127


SO LARGE MY WILL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: At our conceit %in purchasing
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1024; Poem: 103


SO MUCH OF HEAVEN HAS GONE FROM EARTH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And he has hauled away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1240; Poem: 122


SO MUCH SUMMER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Would suffice to stow
Variant Title(s): Poem: 651; Poem: 76


SO PROUD SHE WAS TO DIE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Almost to jealousy —
Subject(s): Death; Pride


SO SET ITS SUN IN THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thy shore?


SO THE EYES ACCOST AND SUNDER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Gone as soon as known
Variant Title(s): Poem: 752; Poem: 79


SO WELL THAT I CAN LIVE WITHOUT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As I love thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 456; Poem: 68
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love


SO, FROM THE MOULD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Gaze perplexedly!
Subject(s): Peasantry


SOCIETY FOR ME MY MISERY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Since gift of thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1534; Poem: 119


SOFT AS THE MASSACRE OF SUNS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By evenings' sabres slain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1127; Poem: 114


SOFT SEA WASHED AROUND THE HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For the delighted crew
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1198; Poem: 119


SOFTENED BY TIME'S CONSUMMATE PLUSH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So easy to repair
Subject(s): Children; Despair; Time; Healing


SOLEMN THING WITHIN THE SOUL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The single to some lives
Variant Title(s): Poem: 467; Poem: 48
Subject(s): Soul


SOME - WORK FOR IMMORTALITY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ones' - money - one's the mine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 406; Poem: 53
Subject(s): Fame; Immortality; Time


SOME ARROWS SLAY BUT WHOM THEY STRIKE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Too trackless for a tomb
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1565; Poem: 166
Subject(s): Escapes


SOME DAYS RETIRED FROM THE REST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or was obliged to die
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life


SOME KEEP THE SABBATH GOING TO CHURCH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'm going, all along
Subject(s): Sabbath; Worship


SOME ONE PREPARED THIS MIGHTY SHOW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The pomp of summer days
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1644; Poem: 167


SOME RAINBOW COMING FROM THE FAIR!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or what circassian land?
Subject(s): Spring; Nature


SOME SAY GOODNIGHT AT NIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some say goodnight at night
Last Line: Itself, the purple on the height %denominated morn
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1739; Poem: 58
Subject(s): Absence


SOME SUCH BUTTERFLY BE SEEN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Foreigners - this morning
Variant Title(s): Poem: 541; Poem: 66


SOME THINGS THAT FLY THERE BE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: How still the riddle lies!
Subject(s): Sky


SOME WE SEE NO MORE, TENEMENTS OF WONDER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To enlist the tomb
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1221; Poem: 121


SOME WRETCHED CREATURE, SAVIOR TAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And leave for thy sweet mercy's sake %another hout to me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1111; Poem: 113


SOME, TOO FRAGILE FOR WINTER WINDS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Lambs for whom time had not a fold
Subject(s): Winter; Cold


SOMEHOW MYSELF SURVIVED THE NIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A candidate for morning chance %but dated with the dead
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1194; Poem: 120
Subject(s): Survival


SOMETIMES WITH THE HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Few - love all
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1680; Poem: 172


SOMEWHAT, TO HOPE FOR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: If terminable, may be borne
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1041; Poem: 99
Subject(s): Hope


SOMEWHERE UPON THE GENERAL EARTH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oh god of width, do not for us %curtail eternity!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1231; Poem: 122


SOTO! EXPLORE THYSELF!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: No settler hath the mind
Variant Title(s): Poem: 832; Poem: 81
Subject(s): Soto, Hernando De (1496-1542)


SOUL HAS BANDAGED MOMENTS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: These, are not brayed of tongue
Variant Title(s): Poem: 360; Poem: 51
Subject(s): Soul


SOUL'S DISTINCT CONNECTION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And click and suddenness
Variant Title(s): Poem: 974; Poem: 90


SOUL, TAKE THY RISK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Were better then be not %with thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1151; Poem: 113
Subject(s): Death


SOUL, WILT THOU TOSS AGAIN?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Raffle for my soul!
Subject(s): Soul


SOUTH WIND HAS A PATHOS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And for the foreignhood
Variant Title(s): Poem: 719; Poem: 88
Subject(s): Wind


SOUTH WINDS JOSTLE THEM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Present them here!
Subject(s): Bees; Butterflies; Wind


SOWN IN DISHONOR?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A circumstance or two!
Subject(s): Bible; Paul, Saint (first Century)


SPARROW TOOK A SLICE OF TWIG, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Was forfeited away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1211; Poem: 125
Subject(s): Sparrows


SPEECH IS A SYMPTOM OF AFFECTION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yet had not seen!
Subject(s): Speech; Silence; Apostles


SPEECH' IS A PRANK OF PARLIAMENT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Doesn't always move
Variant Title(s): Poem: 193; Poem: 68
Subject(s): Grief


SPIDER HOLDS A SILVER BALL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: His boundaries -- forgot
Variant Title(s): Poem: 605; Poem: 51
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


SPIRIT IS THE CONSCIOUS EAR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The other only hear
Variant Title(s): Poem: 718; Poem: 73


SPIRIT LASTS, BUT IN WHAT MODE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not even a prognostic's push %could make a dent thereon
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1576; Poem: 162


SPLIT THE LARK AND YOU'LL FIND THE MUSIC, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Now, do you doubt that your bird was true?
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


SPRING COMES ON THE WORLD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By a hum
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1042; Poem: 99
Subject(s): Spring


SPRING IS THE PERIOD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Without a cordial interview %with god
Variant Title(s): Poem: 844; Poem: 94
Subject(s): Spring


SPRY ARMS OF THE WIND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To light, and then return
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1103; Poem: 80
Subject(s): Wind


SPURN THE TEMERITY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Knew we of thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1432; Poem: 148


STAGNANT PLEASURE LIKE A POOL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When freshets come along
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1281; Poem: 125


STEM OF A DEPARTED FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of a despatch of pinbk
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1520; Poem: 154
Subject(s): Flowers


STEP LIGHTLY ON THIS NARROW SPOT!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her deathless syllable


STILL OWN THEE - STILL THOU ART, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In the recallless sea?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1633; Poem: 165


STILL VOLCANO - LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And cities ooze away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 517; Poem: 60


STRONG DRAUGHTS OF THEIR REFRESHING MINDS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of an hermetic mind
Variant Title(s): Poem: 711; Poem: 77


STRUCK, WAS I, NOT YET BY LIGHTNING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Till the infinite aurora %in the other's eyes
Variant Title(s): Poem: 925; Poem: 84


SUCCESS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Success is counted sweetest / by those who never succeed
Last Line: Break, agonized and clear.
Subject(s): Failure; Success


SUCH ARE THE INLETS OF THE MIND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of immortality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1421; Poem: 143


SUCH IS THE FORCE OF HAPPINESS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Too infinite for consciousness' %slow capabilities
Variant Title(s): Poem: 787; Poem: 88


SUMMER BEGINS TO HAVE THE LOOK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Recalls to immortality
Subject(s): Summer; Autumn; Immortality


SUMMER FOR THEE GRANT I MAY BE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thy flower - forevermore!
Subject(s): Summer; Anemone


SUMMER HAS TWO BEGINNINGS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Except to those who die
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1422; Poem: 145
Subject(s): Summer


SUMMER IS SHORTER THAN ANY ONE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Equally retain him
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1506; Poem: 148
Subject(s): Grief


SUMMER LAID HER SIMPLE HAT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The demand of awe?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1363; Poem: 141


SUMMER SHOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A drop fell on the apple tree / another on the roof
Last Line: And signed the fete away.
Subject(s): Rain; Summer


SUMMER THAT WE DID NOT PRIZE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Unconsciousness of his smartness
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1773; Poem: 162


SUMMER WE HAVE ALL SEEN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The embryo endowed
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1386; Poem: 141
Subject(s): Summer


SUN AND FOG CONTESTED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And drove the fog away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1190; Poem: 124
Subject(s): Fog


SUN AND MOON MUST MAKE THEIR HASTE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The lord a candle entertains %entirely for thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 871; Poem: 106


SUN IN REINING TO THE WEST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That whiffletree of amethyst
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1636; Poem: 165


SUN IS GAY OR STARK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It magnifies our fright
Variant Title(s): Poem: 878; Poem: 92


SUN IS ONE AND ON THE TARE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And estimates them all
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1372; Poem: 139


SUN KEPT STOOPING - STOOPING - LOW!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But nobody was there!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 152; Poem: 18


SUN RETIRED TO A CLOUD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And handed to the trees
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1693; Poem: 170


SUN WENT DOWN - NO MAN LOOKED ON, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Were witness for the crown
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1079; Poem: 110


SUNRISE RUNS FOR BOTH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And one upon her hem %both lie
Variant Title(s): Poem: 710; Poem: 76


SUNSET AND SUNRISE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll tell you how the sun rose
Last Line: And led the flock away.
Subject(s): Sun


SUNSET AT NIGHT - IS NATURAL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Jehovah's watch - wrong
Variant Title(s): Poem: 415; Poem: 42


SUNSET STOPPED ON COTTAGES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thou supercilious sun?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 950; Poem: 111
Subject(s): Evening


SUNSET THAT SCREENS, REVEALS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Amd moats of mystery
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1609; Poem: 164


SUPERFLUOUS WERE THE SUN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: From an abundant sky
Subject(s): Sun


SURGEONS MUST BE VERY CAREFUL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Stirs the culprit — life!
Subject(s): Surgery


SURPRISE IS LIKE A THRILLING PUNGENT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: An edible delight
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1306; Poem: 132
Subject(s): Surprise


SUSPENSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Elysium is as far as to
Last Line: The opening of a door!
Subject(s): Love


SUSPENSE IS HOSTILER THAN DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Annnihilation plated fresh %with immortality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 705; Poem: 77


SWEET - YOU FORGOT BUT I REMEMBERED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: You - sweet - shut me out
Variant Title(s): Poem: 52


SWEET HOURS HAVE PERISHED HERE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Now fallow in the tomb
Subject(s): Time


SWEET MOUNTAINS - YE TELL ME NO LIE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To lift her brows on you
Variant Title(s): Poem: 722; Poem: 74
Subject(s): Mountains


SWEET PRINCE OF THE HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Confide in me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1546; Poem: 156


SWEET SAFE HOUSES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Interrupt to die
Variant Title(s): Poem: 457; Poem: 68
Subject(s): Houses


SWEET SKEPTICISM OF THE HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of transport thrilled with fear
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1413; Poem: 143
Subject(s): Doubt


SWEET, TO HAVE HAD THEM LOST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then thought of us, and stayed
Variant Title(s): Poem: 901; Poem: 80
Subject(s): Death


SWEETEST HERESY RECEIVED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To fail - is infidel
Variant Title(s): Poem: 387; Poem: 67


SYMPTOM OF THE GALE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Good morning' - we propund?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1327; Poem: 132


TAKE ALL AWAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is left - the immortality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1365; Poem: 139
Subject(s): Immortality


TAKE ALL AWAY FROM ME, BUT LEAVE ME ECSTASY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In abject poverty
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1640; Poem: 167
Subject(s): Immortality


TAKE YOUR HEAVEN FURTHER ON, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: See - in white!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 388; Poem: 67


TAKEN FROM MEN THIS MORNING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our departed are
Subject(s): Death – Children; Funerals; Heaven


TAKING OFF EMILY DICKINSON'S CLOTHES, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, her tippet made of tulle
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Love - Erotic; Love


TAKING OFF EMILY DICKINSON'S CLOTHES, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, her tippet made of tulle
Last Line: That looks right at you with a yellow eye
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Erotic Love; Love


TAKING UP THE FAIR IDEAL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Meet us - with a smile
Variant Title(s): Poem: 386; Poem: 42


TALK NOT TO ME OF SUMMER TREES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Whose bugles call the least of us %to undepicted realms
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1634; Poem: 165


TALK WITH PRUDENCE TO A BEGGAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Have sometimes proved deadly sweet!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars


TEACHING EMILY DICKINSON, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What starts as one more monday morning class
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TEACHING EMILY DICKINSON, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What starts as one more monday morning class
Last Line: Opens its wings. They spread. They cover us: %myraid lives foreshortened into word
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TELL ALL THE TRUTH BUT TELL IT SLANT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or every man be blind
Subject(s): Truth


TELL ALL THE TRUTH BUT TELL IT SLANT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The truth must dazzle gradually %or every man be blind
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1129; Poem: 126
Subject(s): Truth


TELL AS A MARKSMAN - WERE FORGOTTEN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When the cry is meant
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1152; Poem: 114
Subject(s): Tell, William


TEST OF LOVE IS DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The cross' request
Variant Title(s): Poem: 541; Poem: 57
Subject(s): Love


THAN HEAVEN MORE REMOTE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And instant, too
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1436; Poem: 146
Subject(s): Heaven


THAT AFTER HORROR THAT WAS US, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The cordiality of death %who drills his welcome in
Variant Title(s): Poem: 286; Poem: 24
Subject(s): Death


THAT DISTANCE WAS BETWEEN US, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Equator never can
Variant Title(s): Poem: 863; Poem: 90
Subject(s): Absence


THAT FIRST DAY, WHEN YOU PRAISED ME, SWEET, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And vaster of the world's
Variant Title(s): Poem: 470; Poem: 65


THAT IS SOLEMN WE HAVE ENDED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Still to be explained
Subject(s): Death


THAT IT WILL NEVER COME AGAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Precisely opposite
Subject(s): Mortality


THAT IT WILL NEVER COME AGAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: This instigates an appetite %precisely opposite
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1741; Poem: 176
Subject(s): Life; Mourning


THAT LOVE IS ALL THERE IS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Proportioned to the groove
Subject(s): Love


THAT ODD OLD MAN IS DEAD A YEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Feels transitive and cool
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1130; Poem: 115
Subject(s): Death


THAT SACRED CLOSET WHEN YOU SWEEP, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: You cannot supersede itself %but it can silence you
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1273; Poem: 138
Subject(s): Memory


THAT SHE FORGOT ME WAS THE LEAST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A something like a shame
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Shame


THAT SUCH HAVE DIED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That such have died enables us
Last Line: For immortality.
Subject(s): Immortality; Life Change Events


THAT THIS SHOULD FEEL THE NEED OF DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oh the audacity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1112; Poem: 118


THE BALLOON, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You've seen balloons set, haven't you?
Last Line: 't was only a balloon
Subject(s): Balloons


THE BAT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: His eccentricities.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats


THE BATTLEFIELD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars
Last Line: Can summon every face.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


THE BEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
Last Line: Of clovers and of noon!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE IS NOT AFRAID OF ME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wherefore, o summer's day?
Subject(s): Nature


THE BIBLE IS AN ANTIQUE VOLUME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It did not condemn
Subject(s): Bible


THE BLUEBIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before you thought of spring, / except as a surmise
Last Line: But his seraphic self!
Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds


THE BLUNDER IS TO ESTIMATE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As this eternity
Subject(s): Future Life


THE BONE THAT HAS NO MARROW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Confronting us again!
Subject(s): Bones


THE BOOK OF MARTYRS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Read, sweet, how others strove
Last Line: Into renown!
Subject(s): Martyrs


THE BRAIN - IS WIDER THAN THE SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As syllable from sound
Subject(s): Mind, The


THE BRAIN, WITHIN ITS GROOVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And blotted out the mills!
Subject(s): Mind, The


THE BUTTERFLY OBTAINS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For immortality 
Subject(s): Butterflies; Immortality


THE BUTTERYFLY'S ASSUMPTION-GOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line:  in a new england town!
Subject(s): Butterflies; New England


THE CHARIOT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I could not stop for death, / he kindly stopped for me
Last Line: Were toward eternity--
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Holidays; Immortality; Mortality; Mourning; New Year; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bereavement; Theology


THE CLOUDS THEIR BACKS TOGETHER LAID, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor vengance ever comes
Subject(s): Nature


THE CONTRACT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I gave myself to him
Last Line: Insolvent, every noon.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE DAISY FOLLOWS SOFT THE SUN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Night's possibility!
Subject(s): Daisies; Sun; Love


THE DECONSTRUCTION OF EMILY DICKINSON, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lecture had ended when I came in
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


THE DEVIL, HAD HE FIDELITY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Were thoroughly divine
Subject(s): Devil; Fidelity


THE DISTANCE THAT THE DEAD HAVE GONE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With their dear retrospect
Subject(s): Death, Return From


THE DUTIES OF THE WIND ARE FEW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: However, know not I
Subject(s): Wind


THE DYING NEED BUT LITTLE, DEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Perceive, when you are gone
Subject(s): Death


THE ECLAT OF DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Had he the power to spurn!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1307;poem: 1363
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


THE FACE WE CHOOSE TO MISS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When it has rode away
Subject(s): Absense


THE FARTHEST THUNDER THAT I HEARD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Its explanation found
Subject(s): Storms


THE FEET OF PEOPLE WALKING HOME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Such resurrection pours!
Subject(s): Homecoming


THE FIRST LESSON, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in this world to see his face
Last Line: Himself could have the skies.
Subject(s): Love


THE FOLD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let down the bars, o death
Last Line: Too tender to be told.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1065;poem: 1117
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After a hundred years / nobody knows the place
Last Line: Dropped by memory.
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The


THE FUTURE NEVER SPOKE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fate's — telegram — to him
Subject(s): Future


THE GENTIAN WEAVES HER FRINGES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And of the breeze — amen!
Subject(s): Sickness; Nature


THE GLEAM OF AN HEROIC ACT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By the imagination
Subject(s): Imagination


THE GOAL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each life converges to some centre / expressed or still
Last Line: Again.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 680;poem: 724


THE GRASS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grass so little has to do
Last Line: I wish I were a hay!
Subject(s): Grass; Spring


THE GRAVE MY LITTLE COTTAGE IS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In strong society
Subject(s): Home


THE HEALED HEART SHOWS ITS SHALLOW STAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than such fidelity
Subject(s): Healing; Hearts; Fidelity


THE HEART ASKS PLEASURE FIRST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The privilege to die
Subject(s): Personal Rights; Death


THE HEMLOCK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think the hemlock likes to stand
Last Line: And dnieper wrestlers run.
Subject(s): Hemlocks


THE HILLS ERECT THEIR PURPLE HEADS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A curiosity
Subject(s): Mankind; Nature


THE INCIDENTS OF LOVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is the minute per cents
Subject(s): Love


THE INUNDATION OF THE SPRING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For that peninsula
Subject(s): Water


THE JAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No brigadier throughout the year
Last Line: That leaves this neighbor out.
Subject(s): Birds; Bluejays


THE JOURNEY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our journey had advanced
Last Line: And god at every gate.
Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


THE LARGEST FIRE EVER KNOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To be again burned down
Subject(s): Fire


THE LAST NIGHT THAT SHE LIVED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our faith to regulate
Subject(s): Death


THE LEAVES, LIKE WOMEN, INTERCHANGE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To notoriety
Subject(s): Leaves; Women; Secrets


THE LETTER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Going to him! Happy letter! Tell him
Last Line: "gesture, coquette, and shake your head!"
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Letters; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


THE LONELY HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know some lonely houses off the road
Last Line: Think that the sunrise left the door ajar!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Supernatural


THE LONG SIGH OF THE FROG, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For corporal release
Subject(s): Frogs


THE LOOK OF THEE, WHAT IS IT LIKE?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That thou shalt be the same
Subject(s): Human Behavior


THE LOST JEWEL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I held a jewel in my fingers / and went to sleep
Last Line: Is all I own.
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


THE LOST THOUGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I felt a cleavage [or, cleaving] in my mind
Last Line: Like balls upon a floor.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 937;poem: 867


THE LOVERS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose did caper on her cheek
Last Line: Ticked softly into one.
Subject(s): Love


THE LUXURY TO APPREHEND, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The consciousness of thee
Subject(s): Love


THE MARTYRS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the straight [or, strait] pass of suffering
Last Line: Wades so, through polar air.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 792;poem: 187
Subject(s): Martyrs


THE MASTER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He fumbles at your spirit [or, soul]
Last Line: That scalps your naked soul.
Subject(s): God


THE MISSING ALL PREVENTED ME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For curiosity
Subject(s): Indifference


THE MOON, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon was but a chin of gold
Last Line: Her dimities of blue.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 737
Subject(s): Moon


THE MOON IS DISTANT FROM THE SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thine eye impose on me
Subject(s): Moon; Sea


THE MOON UPON HER FLUENT ROUTE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As dawn forgets them — now
Subject(s): Moon; Stars


THE MOUNTAIN SAT UPON THE PLAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of dawn, the ancestor
Subject(s): Mountains


THE MURMURING OF BEES, HAS CEASED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than persons, that we know
Subject(s): Nature


THE MUSHROOM IS THE ELF OF PLANTS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That mushroom — it is him!
Subject(s): Mushrooms


THE MYSTERY OF EMILY DICKINSON, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes the weather goes on for days
Last Line: Unless there was time, and eternity's plenty.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry & Poets; Women


THE MYSTERY OF PAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pain has an element of blank; / it cannot recollect
Last Line: New periods of pain.
Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery


THE NEAREST DREAM RECEDES, UNREALIZED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That brews that rare variety!
Subject(s): Dreams


THE NIGHT WAS WIDE, AND FURNISHED SCANT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The sleet — than may, no thee
Subject(s): Winter


THE ONE THAT COULD REPEAT THE SUMMER DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: His name — remain
Subject(s): Sun; Evening


THE ONES THAT DISAPPEARED ARE BACK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The other side is may
Subject(s): Seasons


THE ONLY GHOST I EVER SAW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Since that appalling day!
Subject(s): Ghosts


THE OVERTAKELESSNESS OF THOSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Beyond the hope of touch
Subject(s): Death


THE PAST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The past is such a curious creature
Last Line: Might yet reply!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1203;poem: 1273
Subject(s): Past


THE PEDIGREE OF HONEY , by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is aristocracy
Subject(s): Bees


THE PROPS ASSIST THE HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Affirming it a soul
Subject(s): Houses; Building & Builders; Soul


THE RAILWAY TRAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like to see it lap the miles
Last Line: At its own stable door.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Railroads; Rivers; Railways; Trains


THE RAT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rat is the concisest tenant
Last Line: Equilibrium.
Subject(s): Rats


THE RETICENT VOLCANO KEEPS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is immortality
Subject(s): Volcanoes; Immortality


THE RIGHT TO PERISH MIGHT BE THOUGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To pay you scrutiny
Subject(s): Human Rights; Death


THE ROBIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The robin is the one
Last Line: And sanctity are best.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 828;poem: 501
Subject(s): Robins


THE SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An everywhere of silver, / with ropes of sand
Last Line: The track called land.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 884;poem: 931
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean


THE SEA OF SUNSET, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the land the sunset washes, / these are the banks of
Last Line: Dip, and vanish with fairy sails.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 266;poem: 297


THE SEA SAID 'COME' TO THE BROOK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wisdom is stale to me
Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Wisdom


THE SECRET (1), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have not told my garden yet
Last Line: One will walk to-day!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 50;poem: 40


THE SHELTER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The body grows outside
Last Line: In timid honesty
Subject(s): Body, Human; Soul


THE SHOW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The show is not the show / but they that go
Last Line: Both went to see.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1206;poem: 1270


THE SKIES CAN'T KEEP THEIR SECRET!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In your new-fashioned world!
Subject(s): Gossip; News


THE SNAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A narrow fellow in the grass
Last Line: And zero at the bone.
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE SNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It sifts from leaden sieves
Last Line: Denying they have been.
Subject(s): Snow


THE SOUL SHOULD ALWAYS STAND AJAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her visitor, no more 
Subject(s): Soul


THE SOUL THAT HAS A GUEST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The emperor of men
Subject(s): Guests


THE SOUL UNTO ITSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The soul should stand in awe
Subject(s): Soul


THE SOUL'S STORM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It struck me every day / the lightning was as new
Last Line: And left it in the sky.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 362
Subject(s): Soul; Storms


THE SOUL'S SUPERIOR INSTANTS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of immortality
Subject(s): Immortality; Soul


THE SPIDER AS AN ARTIST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I take thee by the hand
Subject(s): Spiders


THE SPRINGTIME'S PALLID LANDSCAPE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When sacrament is done
Subject(s): Spring


THE STARS ARE OLD, THAT STOOD FOR ME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Twas victory was slain
Subject(s): Aging


THE STIMULUS BEYOND THE GRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Afforded day by day
Subject(s): Future Life


THE STORM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a wind like a bugle
Last Line: And yet abide the world!
Subject(s): Storms


THE SUBURBS OF A SECRET, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To scrutinize the sleep
Subject(s): Secrets


THE SUN JUST TOUCHED THE MORNING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Henceforth — her only one!
Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Sun; Morning


THE SUN KEPT SETTING - SETTING - STILL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'm not afraid to know
Subject(s): Sun; Death


THE SWEETS OF PILLAGE CAN BE KNOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is his divinest grief
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Integrity


THE THOUGHT BENEATH SO SLIGHT A FILM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or mists – the apennine
Subject(s): Metaphor


THE TREASON OF AN ACCENT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of sanctity to be


THE WAKING YEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lady red upon [or, amid] the hill
Last Line: Were nothing very odd!
Subject(s): Spring


THE WAY I READ A LETTER'S - THIS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The heaven god bestow
Subject(s): Letters


THE WIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She rose to his requirement, dropped
Last Line: The fathoms they abide.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE WIND (2), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the sounds despatched abroad
Last Line: In seamless company.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WIND'S VISIT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind tapped like a tired man
Last Line: And I became alone.
Subject(s): Wind


THE WINDS DREW OFF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Beware an austrian
Subject(s): Wind; Nature


THE WORLD IS NOT CONCLUSION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This world is not conclusion
Subject(s): Immortality


THEIR BARRICADE AGAINST THE SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But holidays of war
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1471; Poem: 150
Subject(s): War


THEIR DAPPLED IMPORTUNITY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are obsolete to bliss
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1611; Poem: 167


THEIR HEIGHT IN HEAVEN COMFORTS NOT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "keeps pleading — ""I don't know."
Subject(s): Heaven


THEMSELF ARE ALL I HAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Would you instead of me?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1094; Poem: 105


THERE ARE TWO MAYS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: How infinite the compromise %that indicates I will
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1618; Poem: 163


THERE ARE TWO RIPENINGS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In far october air
Variant Title(s): Poem: 332; Poem: 42


THERE CAME A DAY AT SUMMER'S FULL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Justified — through calvaries of love
Subject(s): Summer; Time; Heaven


THERE COMES A WARNING LIKE A SPY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And summers are away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1536; Poem: 156
Subject(s): Time


THERE COMES AN HOUR WHEN BEGGING STOPS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Discipline, come again
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1751; Poem: 176
Subject(s): Prayer


THERE IS A FINISHED FEELING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the eternal function %enabled to infer
Variant Title(s): Poem: 856; Poem: 109
Subject(s): Death


THERE IS A FLOWER THAT BEES PREFER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What cancelled by the frost
Subject(s): Nature


THERE IS A JUNE WHEN CORN IS CUT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That we but recollect the one %the other to prefer?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 930; Poem: 81


THERE IS A LANGUOR OF THE LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: There's no vitality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 396; Poem: 55
Subject(s): Pain


THERE IS A MORN BY MEN UNSEEN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Unto the different dawn!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 13; Poem: 2


THERE IS A PAIN - SO UTTER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Would drop him — bone by bone
Subject(s): Pain; Memory


THERE IS A PAIN - SO UTTER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Goes safely - where an open eye-- %would drop him - bone by bone
Variant Title(s): Poem: 599; Poem: 51
Subject(s): Pain


THERE IS A SHAME OF NOBLENESS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But that's — behind the grave
Subject(s): Shame


THERE IS A SOLITUDE OF SPACE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Finite infinity
Subject(s): Solitude; Privacy


THERE IS A STRENGTH IN PROVING THAT IT CAN BE BORNE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To walk on seas requires cedar feet
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1113; Poem: 113


THERE IS A WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "is a soul ""forgot""!"
Subject(s): Time; Language


THERE IS A ZONE WHOSE EVEN YEARS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And consciousness - is noon
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1056; Poem: 102
Subject(s): Summer


THERE IS AN ARID PLEASURE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is worthless to the bee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 782; Poem: 88


THERE IS ANOTHER LONELINESS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By mortal numeral
Subject(s): Solitude


THERE IS ANOTHER SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Into my garden come!
Variant Title(s): Poem:


THERE IS NO SILENCE IN THE EARTH - SO SILENT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And haunt the world
Variant Title(s): Poem: 100
Subject(s): Silence


THERE'S A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: On the look of death
Subject(s): Winter; Light; Death


THERE'S BEEN A DEATH IN THE OPPOSITE HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In just a country town 
Subject(s): Death


THERE'S SOMETHING QUIETER THAN SLEEP, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Remark that birds have fled!
Subject(s): Corpses


THERE'S THE BATTLE OF BURGOYNE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: You would chastened stare
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1174; Poem: 131
Subject(s): Burgoyne, John (1722-1792)


THESE ARE THE DAYS THAT REINDEER LOVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And finland of the year
Subject(s): Winter; Finland


THESE ARE THE NIGHTS THAT BEETLES LOVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With its remaining charm
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1128; Poem: 115


THESE ARE THE SIGNS TO NATURE'S INNS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And in the north, the star
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1077; Poem: 110
Subject(s): Nature


THESE FEVERED DAYS TO TAKE THEM TO THE FOREST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Seems it sometimes this would be all
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1441; Poem: 146
Subject(s): Forests


THESE HELD THEIR WICK ABOVE THE WEST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Did it abide or no
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1390; Poem: 141


THESE SAW VISIONS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fit for her reception now
Variant Title(s): Poem: 758; Poem: 76


THESE STRANGERS, IN A FOREIGN WORLD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Be found a refugee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1096; Poem: 80


THESE TESTED OUR HORIZON, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A dice - a doubt
Variant Title(s): Poem: 886; Poem: 93


THEY ASK BUT OUR DELIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For a penurious smile
Variant Title(s): Poem: 868; Poem: 90


THEY CALLED ME TO THE WINDOW, FOR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor farm - nor opal herd - was there - %nor mediterranean
Variant Title(s): Poem: 628; Poem: 58


THEY HAVE A LITTLE ODOR THAT TO ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A habit of a laureate
Variant Title(s): Poem: 505; Poem: 78


THEY HAVE NOT CHOSEN ME,' HE SAID, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thy dishonor shared!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 85; Poem: 8


THEY LEAVE US WITH THE INFINITE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And quick enough, if true
Variant Title(s): Poem: 350; Poem: 35


THEY PUT US FAR APART, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Each other's setting - saw
Variant Title(s): Poem: 474; Poem: 70
Subject(s): Absence


THEY SAY THAT 'TIME ASSUAGES', by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: There was no malady
Subject(s): Pain; Time


THEY SHUT ME UP IN PROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And laugh — no more have I 
Subject(s): Children; Growth


THEY SHUT ME UP IN PROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And laugh -- no more have I
Variant Title(s): Poem: 445; Poem: 61
Subject(s): Women


THEY TALK AS SLOW AS LEGENDS GROW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The point with bland prevision %portentously untold
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1697; Poem: 173


THEY WON'T FROWN ALWAYS, SOME SWEET DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That filled the lisping full
Subject(s): Cold


THINGS THAT NEVER CAN COME BACK, ARE SEVERAL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Himself at whatever fathom %his native land
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1515; Poem: 156


THINGS WE THOUGHT THAT WE SHOULD DO, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Untenable to logic %but possibly the one
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1293; Poem: 127
Subject(s): Human Behavior


THIS BAUBLE WAS PREFERRED OF BEES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It had created her
Variant Title(s): Poem: 805; Poem: 86
Subject(s): Sun


THIS CHASM, SWEET, UPON MY LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Can harass me no more
Variant Title(s): Poem: 858; Poem: 106


THIS CONSCIOUSNESS THAT IS AWARE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Attended by a single hound %its own identity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 822; Poem: 81


THIS DIRTY LITTLE HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And not the knees
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1311; Poem: 137


THIS DOCILE ONE INTER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As dauntless in the house of death %as if it were her own
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1752; Poem: 176


THIS DUST, AND ITS FEATURE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For its absorbed attention's %remotest scrutiny
Variant Title(s): Poem: 936; Poem: 86


THIS HEART THAT BROKE SO LONG, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tenderness builded there
Variant Title(s): Poem: 145; Poem: 8


THIS IS A BLOSSOM OF THE BRAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The flower of our lord
Variant Title(s): Poem: 945; Poem: 111
Subject(s): Flowers; God


THIS IS MY LETTER TO THE WORLD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Judge tenderly — of me
Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Judgments


THIS IS THE PLACE THEY HOPED BEFORE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The way is closed they came
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1264; Poem: 128


THIS ME THAT WALKS AND WORKS MUST DIE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Can make a dent thereon
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1588; Poem: 161


THIS MERIT HATH THE WORST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than it resists — the hound
Subject(s): Fate


THIS SLOW DAY MOVED ALONG, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And it was out of sight
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1120; Poem: 119
Subject(s): Time


THIS THAT WOULD GREET AN HOUR AGO, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Match me the solid calm
Variant Title(s): Poem: 778; Poem: 87


THIS WAS A POET - IT IS THAT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Exterior — to time
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


THIS WAS A POET - IT IS THAT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Himself - to him - a fortune - %exterior - to time
Variant Title(s): Poem: 448; Poem: 44
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets


THIS WAS IN THE WHITE OF THE YEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sometimes, almost more
Subject(s): Spring; Winter; Memory


THIS WORLD IS NOT CONCLUSION (DIFFERENT VERSION), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This world is not conclusion
Last Line: And crucifixion known.
Subject(s): Immortality


THO' MY DESTINY BE FUSTIAN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And no reapers stand!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 131; Poem: 16


THOSE - DYING THEN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Better an ignis fatuus %than on illume at all
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1551; Poem: 158
Subject(s): Faith; God


THOSE CATTLE SMALLER THAN A BEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To justify or scourge
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1388; Poem: 139


THOSE FAIR -- FICTITIOUS PEOPLE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those fair -- fictitious people
Last Line: The way ourself, must come
Variant Title(s): Poem: 499; Poem: 36


THOSE FINAL CREATURES, - WHO THEY ARE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But just the summer knows
Subject(s): Summer


THOSE NOT LIVE YET, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Costumeless consciousness %that is he
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1454; Poem: 148


THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE GRAVE THE LONGEST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Once to communicate
Variant Title(s): Poem: 92


THOUGH I GET HOME HOW LATE, HOW LATE!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Beguiles the centuries of way!
Subject(s): Homecoming


THOUGH THE GREAT WATERS SLEEP, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To put it out
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1599; Poem: 164


THREE TIMES WE PARTED, BREATH AND I, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And I stood up and lived
Variant Title(s): Poem: 514; Poem: 59
Subject(s): Survival


THREE WEEKS PASSED SINCE I HAD SEEN HER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Which be out of sight?
Subject(s): Absense


THRILL CAME SLOWLY LIKE A BOON FOR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1495; Poem: 152


THROUGH LANE IT LAY, THROUGH BRAMBLE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: These children fluttered home
Subject(s): Travel; Fear


THROUGH THE DARK SOD - AS EDUCATION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In ecstasy - and dell
Variant Title(s): Poem: 392; Poem: 55


THROUGH THOSE OLD GROUNDS OF MEMORY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But otherwise withheld
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1753; Poem: 177


THROUGH WHAT TRANSPORTS OF PATIENCE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thy privilege of dying %abbreviate this
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1153; Poem: 126
Subject(s): Patience


TILL DEATH IS NARROW LOVING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Delight of nature abdicate %exhibit love somewhat
Variant Title(s): Poem: 907; Poem: 83


TIME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look back on time with kindly eyes
Last Line: In human nature's west!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1478;poem: 1251
Subject(s): Time


TIME DOES GO ON, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They don't believe it now
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1121; Poem: 133
Subject(s): Time


TIME FEELS SO VAST THAT WERE IT NOT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of his diameters
Variant Title(s): Poem: 802; Poem: 85
Subject(s): Time


TIME'S WILY CHARGERS WILL NOT WAIT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They will not stir for blows
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1458; Poem: 149
Subject(s): Time


TINT I CANNOT TAKE - IS BEST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Shuts arrogantly in the grave %another way to see
Variant Title(s): Poem: 627; Poem: 69


TIS ANGUISH GRANDER THAN DELIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Go up by two and two
Variant Title(s): Poem: 192; Poem: 98


TIS CUSTOMARY AS WE PART, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of her electric hair
Variant Title(s): Poem: 440; Poem: 62
Subject(s): Absence


TIS EASIER TO PITY THOSE WHEN DEAD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Too seldom does
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1698; Poem: 171


TIS GOOD THE LOOKING BACK ON GRIEF, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They're water equally
Variant Title(s): Poem: 472; Poem: 66
Subject(s): Grief


TIS LITTLE I COULD CARE FOR PEARLS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Continual upon me
Subject(s): Materialism


TIS MY FIRST NIGHT BENEATH THE SUN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To those who visit him
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1122; Poem: 115


TIS NOT THAT DYING HURTS US SO, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We stipulate - till pitying sorrows %persuade our heavenly home
Variant Title(s): Poem: 335; Poem: 52
Subject(s): Life


TIS NOT THE SWAYING FRAME WE MISS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Consolelessly presume
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1597; Poem: 163


TIS ONE BY ONE THE FATHER COUNTS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is fashioned for his hand
Variant Title(s): Poem: 545; Poem: 64


TIS OPPOSITE -- ENTICE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Be only %me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 355; Poem: 61


TIS SEASONS SINCE THE DIMPLED WAR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Each was to each the pink redoubt
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1529; Poem: 155


TIS SO APPALLING -- IT EXHILIRATES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Gay, ghastly, holiday!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 281; Poem: 34


TIS SO MUCH JOY! 'TIS SO MUCH JOY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And might o'erwhelm me so!
Subject(s): Happiness


TIS SUNRISE, LITTLE MAID, HAST THOU, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I might have aided — thee
Subject(s): Death


TIS TRUE -- THEY SHUT ME IN THE COLD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or else forgive me not
Variant Title(s): Poem: 538; Poem: 65


TIS WHITER THAN AN INDIAN PIPE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It be not tragedy


TITLE DIVINE – IS MINE! , by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is this — the way?
Subject(s): Names


TO BE FORGOT BY THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Worthy to be forgot %is my renown
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1560; Poem: 160
Subject(s): Forgetfulness


TO BREAK SO VAST A HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Twas undeserved blast
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1312; Poem: 130


TO DIE - TAKES JUST A LITTLE WHILE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Without the weariness
Variant Title(s): Poem: 255; Poem: 31
Subject(s): Death


TO DIE WITHOUT THE DYING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Propounded to belief
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1017; Poem: 102


TO DISAPPEAR ENHANCES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of unobtained delight
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1209; Poem: 123


TO DO A MAGNANIMOUS THING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is rapture herself spurn
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1699; Poem: 172


TO EARN IT BY DISDAINING IT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Be honor and not shame
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1427; Poem: 144


TO EMILY DICKINSON, by MARY BOWEN BRAINERD    Poem Text                    
First Line: A harp aeolian, on a lonely sill
Last Line: Yet bearing ever nature's sad refrain.
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College


TO EMILY DICKINSON, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You who desire so much - in vain to ask
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TO EMILY DICKINSON, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You who desire so much - in vain to ask
Last Line: Leaves ormus rubyless, and ophir chill. %else tears heap all within one clay-cold hill
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TO EMILY DICKINSON, by JOYCE LANCASTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crispy %fragrant petals
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TO EMILY DICKINSON, by YVOR WINTERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear emily, my tears would burn your page,
Last Line: In that hard argument which led to god
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TO EMILY DICKINSON, by YVOR WINTERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear emily, my tears would burn your page,
Last Line: In that hard argument which led to god.
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


TO EMILY DICKINSON IN HER GARDEN, by FRANCES WRIGHT TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wonder what that great pine said to you


TO EMILY DICKINSON: UPDATE AND FAREWELL, by SUSAN VREELAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the end of the century after yours
Last Line: I'll not be reading you again


TO FIGHT ALOUD IS VERY BRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And uniforms of snow 
Subject(s): Heroism; Self-criticism


TO FILL A GAP, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: You cannot solder an abyss %with air
Variant Title(s): Poem: 546; Poem: 64


TO FLEE FROM MEMORY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of men escaping %from the mind of man
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1242; Poem: 134
Subject(s): Memory


TO HANG OUR HEAD OSTENSIBLY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon a plane of gauze!
Subject(s): Humility


TO HEAR AN ORIOLE SING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "no sir! In thee!"
Subject(s): Orioles; Songs


TO HELP OUR BLEAKER PARTS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Drill silently for heaven
Subject(s): Heaven


TO HER DERIDED HOME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That wafts the seraphim
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1586; Poem: 161


TO HIM WHO KEEPS AN ORCHIS' HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 3


TO HIS SIMPLICITY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But her confederate
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1352; Poem: 138


TO INTERRUPT HIS YELLOW PLAN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A bomb -- to justify
Variant Title(s): Poem: 591; Poem: 62
Subject(s): Sun


TO KNOW JUST HOW HE SUFFERED WOULD BE DEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Meet - and the junction be eternity?
Subject(s): Death


TO LEARN THE TRANSPORT BY THE PAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of the mysterious bard!
Subject(s): Pain


TO LOSE -- IF ONE CAN FIND AGAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Poem: 3


TO LOSE ONE'S FAITH - SURPASS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And being's — beggary
Subject(s): Faith


TO LOSE THEE, SWEETER THAN TO GAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: No caspian could be
Subject(s): Love – Loss Of


TO LOVE THEE, YEAR BY YEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And so I pieced it, with a flower, now
Subject(s): Love – Nature Of


TO MAKE A PRAIRIE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
Last Line: If bees are few.
Subject(s): Prairies; Plains


TO MAKE ONE'S TOILETTE AFTER DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By decalogues away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 471; Poem: 48


TO MAKE ROUTINE A STIMULUS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Become, alas, more fair
Variant Title(s): Poem: 119


TO MEND EACH TATTERED FAITH, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And spacious as before
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1442; Poem: 146
Subject(s): Faith


TO MY QUICK EAR THE LEAVES CONFERRED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To make me visible
Subject(s): Privacy


TO MY SMALL HEARTH HIS FIRE CAME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nay, nature, it was day
Variant Title(s): Poem: 638; Poem: 70


TO OFFER BRAVE ASSISTANCE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: No other stopped to earn
Variant Title(s): Poem: 492; Poem: 76


TO ONE DENIED TO DRINK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of his condemned lip?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 490; Poem: 105


TO OWN A SUSAN OF MY OWN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Continue me in this!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1401; Poem: 143


TO OWN THE ART WITHIN THE SOUL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or a reduceless mine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 855; Poem: 109
Subject(s): Soul


TO PILE LIKE THUNDER TO ITS CLOSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For none see god and live
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Love


TO PUT THIS WORLD DOWN, LIKE A BUNDLE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who indorsed the cup
Variant Title(s): Poem: 404; Poem: 52


TO SEE HER IS A PICTURE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Were shining in your hand
Subject(s): Friendship


TO SEE THE SUMMER SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: True poems flee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1472; Poem: 149
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sky


TO TELL THE BEAUTY WOULD DECREASE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of introspective mines
Subject(s): Transcience; Beauty


TO THE BRIGHT EAST SHE FLIES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Homeless at home
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1573; Poem: 160


TO THE STAUNCH DUST WE SAFE COMMIT THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Passenger of infinity!
Subject(s): Funerals


TO THIS APARTMENT DEEP, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By any man but god
Subject(s): God


TO THIS WORLD SHE RETURNED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And half of day, the bride
Variant Title(s): Poem: 830; Poem: 81


TO TRY TO SPEAK, AND MISS THE WAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Whose title is 'the soul'
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1617; Poem: 162
Subject(s): Soul


TO UNDERTAKE IS TO ACHIEVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Criterion sources here
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1070; Poem: 99


TO VENERATE THE SIMPLE DAYS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Termed mortality!
Subject(s): Mortality; Conduct Of Life


TO WAIT AN HOUR IS LONG, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: If love reward the end
Variant Title(s): Poem: 781; Poem: 88
Subject(s): Love


TO WHOM THE MORNINGS STAND FOR NIGHTS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What must the midnights be!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1095; Poem: 105


TO-DAY OR THIS NOON, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Now past surmise
Subject(s): Absense


TOMORROW' WHOSE LOCATION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or ownest there?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1367; Poem: 141


TONGUE - TO TELL HIM I AM TRUE!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Least figure - on the road
Variant Title(s): Poem: 400; Poem: 67
Subject(s): Truth


TOO COLD IS THIS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But just an asterisk
Subject(s): Cold


TOO FEW THE MORNINGS BE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But no apartment find %and ride away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1186; Poem: 120


TOO HAPPY TIME DISSOLVES ITSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or too much weight to fly
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1774; Poem: 118
Subject(s): Time


TOO LATE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Delayed till she had ceased to know
Last Line: Doubtful if it be crowned!
Subject(s): Time


TOO LITTLE WAY THE HOUSE MUST LIE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And lose its neighbor once
Variant Title(s): Poem: 911; Poem: 90


TOO SCANTY 'TWAS TO DIE FOR YOU, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The respite to be dead
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1013; Poem: 102
Subject(s): Life


TOOTH UPON OUR PEACE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is gilt with sacrifice
Variant Title(s): Poem: 459; Poem: 69


TOUCH LIGHTLY NATURE'S SWEET GUITAR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Because a bard too soon
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1389; Poem: 140


TRANSPORT ONE CANNOT CONTAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The universe would!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 184; Poem: 21


TREASON OF AN ACCENT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is no recoverer
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1358 (1


TREES LIKE TASSELS -- HIT -- AND SWUNG, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of nature's - summer day
Variant Title(s): Poem: 606; Poem: 52
Subject(s): Nature; Summer


TRIED ALWAYS AND CONDEMNED BY THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For which I cease to live
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1559; Poem: 158


TRIUMPH MAY BE OF SEVERAL KINDS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By faith
Subject(s): Death; Faith


TRUDGING TO EDEN, LOOKING BACKWARD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: New acquaintance this baby made
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1020; Poem: 103


TRUST ADJUSTS HER 'PERADVENTURE', by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Phantoms entered 'and not you'
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1161; Poem: 117


TRUST IN THE UNEXPECTED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Provided it believed
Variant Title(s): Poem: 555; Poem: 56


TRUSTY AS THE STARS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Makes a world's suspense %perish and rejoice
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1369; Poem: 141
Subject(s): Stars


TRUTH IS AS OLD AS GOD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A lifeless deity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 836; Poem: 79
Subject(s): Truth


TRUTH IS STIRLESS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That trusts her boldly up
Variant Title(s): Poem: 780; Poem: 88
Subject(s): Truth


TRYING TO FORGET, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bereaved of all, I went abroad
Last Line: Remained in memory.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 784;poem: 886
Subject(s): Graves; Memory; Tombs; Tombstones


TWAS A LONG PARTING, BUT THE TIME, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The unobtrusive guest
Subject(s): Farewell


TWAS AWKWARD, BUT IT FITTED ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Omitted in the lease
Variant Title(s): Poem: 973; Poem: 90
Subject(s): Hearts


TWAS COMFORT IN HER DYING ROOM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And this of ours must die
Subject(s): Death; Time


TWAS CRISIS - ALL THE LENGTH HAD PASSED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Escaped the house unseen
Variant Title(s): Poem: 948; Poem: 109


TWAS FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE HE WENT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In that campaign inscrutable %of the interior
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1188; Poem: 123
Subject(s): Life


TWAS HERE MY SUMMER PAUSED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Go manacle your icicle %against your tropic bride
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1756; Poem: 177
Subject(s): Winter


TWAS LATER WHEN THE SUMMER WENT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Keeps esoteric time
Subject(s): Crickets; Time; Seasons


TWAS LOVE -- NOT ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Twas love - now strike!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 394; Poem: 56
Subject(s): Love


TWAS MY ONE GLORY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I was owned of thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1028; Poem: 104
Subject(s): Mourning


TWAS SUCH A LITTLE, LITTLE BOAT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My little craft was lost!
Subject(s): Boats; Loss


TWAS THE OLD -- ROAD -- THROUGH PAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For our hoarse good night - %to touch her head!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 344; Poem: 37


TWAS WARM - AT FIRST - LIKE US, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But dropped like adamant
Subject(s): Death


TWAS WARM - AT FIRST - LIKE US, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But dropped like adamant
Variant Title(s): Poem: 519; Poem: 61
Subject(s): Cold


TWENTY-ONE LYRICS FROM 'LIFE', by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography


TWICE HAD SUMMER HER FAIR VERDUE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For thy wandering bird?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 846; Poem: 95
Subject(s): Nature


TWO LENGTHS HAS EVERY DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Remain thou as thou art
Subject(s): Time


TWO SWIMMERS WRESTLED ON THE SPAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And hands – beseeching – thrown!
Subject(s): Swimming; Ships & Shipping


TWO TRAVLLERS PERISHING IN SNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As those first furnished, said
Variant Title(s): Poem: 933; Poem: 96


TWO VOYAGERS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two butterflies went out at noon
Last Line: Report was not to me.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


TWO WERE IMMORTAL TWICE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Through their comparative
Variant Title(s): Poem: 800; Poem: 85
Subject(s): Immortality


TWOULD EASE A BUTTERFLY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her least attention raise on me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 682; Poem: 88


UNABLE ARE THE LOVED TO DIE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For love reforms vitality %into divinity
Variant Title(s): Poem: 809; Poem: 95
Subject(s): Love


UNCERTAIN LEASE DEVELOPS LUSTRE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Inheritors upon a tenure %prize
Variant Title(s): Poem: 857; Poem: 105


UNDER THE LIGHT, YET UNDER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For a disc to the distance %between ourselves and the dead!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 949; Poem: 106


UNDUE SIGNIFICANCE A STARVING MAN ATTACHES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Was savory
Subject(s): Food & Eating


UNFULFILLED TO OBSERVATION, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fronting us with night
Variant Title(s): Poem: 972; Poem: 83


UNIT, LIKE DEATH, FOR WHOM?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A tremor just, that all's not sure
Variant Title(s): Poem: 408; Poem: 54


UNTIL THE DESERT KNOWS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: On the familiar road %galloped in dreams
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1291; Poem: 126
Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating


UNTO A BROKEN HEART, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Itself hath suffered too
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1704; Poem: 174


UNTO LIKE STORY - TROUBLE HAS ENTICED ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Beckoning - etruscan invitation - %toward light
Variant Title(s): Poem: 295; Poem: 30


UNTO ME?' I DO NOT KNOW YOU, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Occupy my house
Variant Title(s): Poem: 964; Poem: 82


UNTO MY BOOKS SO GOOD TO TURN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And satisfy — obtained
Subject(s): Books


UNTO THE WHOLE - HOW ADD?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oh, subsidy of balm!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1341; Poem: 137


UNWORTHY OF HER BREAST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We chiefly have!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1414; Poem: 143


UP LIFE'S HILL WITH MY LITTLE BUNDLE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Homelessness, for home
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1010; Poem: 101
Subject(s): Home


UPON A LILAC SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To dooms of balm
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1337; Poem: 136


UPON CONCLUDED LIVES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Saluting -- in the road
Variant Title(s): Poem: 735; Poem: 72


UPON HIS SADDLE SPRUNG A BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is stricken by it yet
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1600; Poem: 166


UPON THE GALLOWS HUNG A WRETCH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oh, what a livid boon!
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Mothers & Sons


UPPER STORY, by MARY JO SALTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As emily dickinson %would not come down, I'm
Last Line: As if that buzzing, when she died, %were here still amplified
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


UTTERANCE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found the phrase [or, word] to every thought
Last Line: Or noon in mazarin?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 581;poem: 436


VANISHED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She died - this was the way she died
Last Line: Upon the mortal side.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


VASTEST EARTHLY DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Behind a pall
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1328; Poem: 132


VEINS OF OTHER FLOWERS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Without a syllable
Variant Title(s): Poem: 811; Poem: 79
Subject(s): Flowers


VERMILION FLOWER, by JANINE BURFORD CANAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Emily dickinson is staying at home. She's wearing her white eyelet dress
Last Line: Look inward and out. Stars sparkle in the back of her head. In her hand, %the vermilion flower outst


VERMONT SUMMER, by DAVE ETTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking this morning through the forest
Last Line: Yours was the harvest of small mysteries
Variant Title(s): Thinking Of Emily Dickinson At Bread Loaf, Vermon
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


VICTORY COMES LATE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who of little love — know how to starve 
Subject(s): God; Food


VISITING EMILY DICKINSON, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR.    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We stood in the cupola for a while
Last Line: Voices starting to drift up from downstairs, %somebody calling my name
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


VISITING EMILY DICKINSON'S GRAVE, by LEO CONNELLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where else would we go first in amherst
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


VISITING EMILY DICKINSON'S GRAVE WITH ROBERT FRANCIS, by ROBERT BLY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Robert francis has moved, since his stroke, into town, and he takes
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Francis, Robert (1901-1987)


VISITING EMILY DICKINSON'S GRAVE WITH ROBERT FRANCIS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The black iron fence closes the graves in
Last Line: And we clamber out of sleep, holding on to it with our hands
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Francis, Robert (1901-1987)


VISITING EMILY DICKINSON'S GRAVE WITH ROBERT FRANCIS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Robert francis has moved, since his stroke, into town, and he takes
Last Line: Us?...For this I have abandoned all my other lives.'
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


VISITOR IN MARL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And whatsoever mouth he kissed - %is as it had not been
Variant Title(s): Poem: 391; Poem: 55


VOICE THAT STANDS FOR FLOODS TO ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By other financiers be deemed %eclusive poverty!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1189; Poem: 120


VOLCANOES BE IN SICILY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Vesuvius at home
Subject(s): Volcanoes


WAIT TILL THE MAJESTY OF DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Receives unblushingly!
Subject(s): Death; God


WARM IN HER HAND THESE ACCENTS LIE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Its fond subjection wear
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1313; Poem: 130


WAS NOT' WAS ALL THE STATEMENT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That was philology
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1342; Poem: 127
Subject(s): Language; Philology


WATER AND WORDS; WITH THANKS TO EMILY DICKINSON, by MARTIN GALVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The only thing my mother feared of death
Last Line: And guess that it and all things else were right
Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age


WATER IS TAUGHT BY THIRST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Birds, by the snow
Subject(s): Nature


WATER MAKES MANY BEDS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Whose axis never comes
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1428; Poem: 144
Subject(s): Water


WATERS CHASED HIM AS HE FLED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The object floating at his side %made no distinct reply
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1749; Poem: 176


WAY HOPE BUILDS HIS HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or mortised with the laws
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1481; Poem: 151
Subject(s): Hope


WAY TO KNOW THE BOBOLINK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her sorcerer withdrawn!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1279; Poem: 134
Subject(s): Bobolinks


WE -- BEE AND I -- LIVE BY THE QUAFFING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We -- bee and I -- live by the quaffing
Last Line: By a humming coroner %in a by-thyme
Variant Title(s): Poem: 230; Poem: 24


WE CAN BUT FOLLOW TO THE SUN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And we behold no more
Variant Title(s): Poem: 920; Poem: 84


WE COVER THEE, SWEET FACE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: If thou would'st take it — now
Subject(s): Farewell


WE DO NOT KNOW THE TIME WE LOSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Whose substances are sand
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1106; Poem: 113
Subject(s): Time


WE DO NOT PLAY ON GRAVES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Just looking round to see how far %it is - occasionally
Variant Title(s): Poem: 467; Poem: 59
Subject(s): Graves


WE DON'T CRY - TIM AND I, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I - 'tim' - and - me!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 196; Poem: 23


WE DREAM - IT IS GOOD WE ARE DREAMING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It's prudenter to dream
Variant Title(s): Poem: 531; Poem: 58
Subject(s): Dreams


WE GROW ACCUSTOMED TO THE DARK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And life steps almost straight
Variant Title(s): Poem: 419; Poem: 42


WE INTRODUCE OURSELVES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Embarrassments %and awes
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1214; Poem: 118


WE KNEW NOT THAT WE WERE TO LIVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It is the same with life
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1462; Poem: 148
Subject(s): Mortality


WE LEARN IN THE RETREATING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It was — before
Subject(s): Learning


WE LEARNED THE WHOLE OF LOVE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Alas, that wisdom is so large - %and truth - so maniford!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 568; Poem: 53
Subject(s): Love


WE LIKE A HAIRBREATH 'SCAPE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Its tentacles divine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1175; Poem: 124


WE LOSE -- BECAUSE WE WIN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Toss their dice again!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 21; Poem: 2


WE MET AS SPARKS - DIVERGING FLINTS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But for that single spark
Variant Title(s): Poem: 958; Poem: 91


WE MISS A KINSMAN MORE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of parishes complain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1087; Poem: 104


WE MISS HER, NOT BECAUSE WE SEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Include us as they go
Variant Title(s): Poem: 993; Poem: 77


WE NEVER KNOW WE GO, - WHEN WE ARE GOING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And we accost no more
Subject(s): Fate


WE OUTGROW LOVE LIKE OTHER THINGS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like costumes grandsires wore
Subject(s): Love – Nature Of


WE PLAY AT PASTE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Practicing sands
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers


WE PRAY TO HEAVEN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where omnipresence fly?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 476; Poem: 48
Subject(s): Heaven


WE SEE - COMPARATIVELY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our giants further on
Variant Title(s): Poem: 534; Poem: 58


WE SEND THE WAVE TO FIND THE WAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The sagest time to dam the sea is when the sea is gone
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1604; Poem: 164
Subject(s): Sea; Waves


WE SHALL FIND THE CUBE OF THE RAINBOW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Eludes the finding out
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1484; Poem: 151
Subject(s): Rainbows


WE SHOULD NOT MIND SO SMALL A FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And dandelions gold
Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Melancholy


WE SHUN BECAUSE WE PRIZE HER FACE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our adoration stain
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1429; Poem: 143


WE SHUN IT ERE IT COMES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like our dismay at thee?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1580; Poem: 159


WE SPY THE FORESTS AND THE HILLS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Some wednesday afternoon?
Subject(s): Nature


WE TALKED AS GIRLS DO, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Before another night
Variant Title(s): Poem: 586; Poem: 39
Subject(s): Women


WE TALKED WITH EACH OTHER ABOUT EACH OTHER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Arks of reprieve he offered to us -- %ararats -- we took
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1473; Poem: 150


WE THIRST AT FIRST, - 'TIS NATURE'S ACT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Termed immortality
Subject(s): Water


WE WEAR OUR SOBER DRESSES WHEN WE DIE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Adjourns her sigh
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1572; Poem: 161
Subject(s): Summer


WE'LL PASS WITHOUT THE PARTING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Those that died
Variant Title(s): Poem: 996; Poem: 50
Subject(s): Ascension Day


WEIGHT WITH NEEDLES ON THE POUNDS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As species - be - for name
Variant Title(s): Poem: 264; Poem: 29


WELL UPON THE BROOK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But wells of failless ground!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1091; Poem: 105
Subject(s): Wells


WERE IT BUT ME THAT GAINED THE HEIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Might they but live, they would!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1015; Poem: 102


WERE IT TO BE THE LAST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our final interview
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1164; Poem: 116


WERE NATURE MORTAL LADY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And by departure more
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1762; Poem: 178
Subject(s): Nature


WERT THOU BUT ILL THAT I MIGHT SHOW THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For life be love
Variant Title(s): Poem: 961; Poem: 82


WHAT CARE THE DEAD, FOR CHANTICLEER, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Give spices unto men
Variant Title(s): Poem: 592; Poem: 62
Subject(s): Death


WHAT DID THEY DO SINCE I SAW THEM?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To that bold person, god
Variant Title(s): Poem: 900; Poem: 107


WHAT I CAN DO - I WILL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Unknown to possibility
Variant Title(s): Poem: 361; Poem: 64


WHAT I SEE NOT, I BETTER SEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And mar thy perfectness
Variant Title(s): Poem: 939; Poem: 86


WHAT IF I SAY I SHALL NOT WAIT?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or who died—yesterday!
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death


WHAT INN IS THIS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who are these below?
Subject(s): Cemeteries


WHAT IS - 'PARADISE', by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As new england used to be
Variant Title(s): Poem: 215; Poem: 24
Subject(s): New England


WHAT MYSTERY PERVADES A WELL!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The nearer her they get
Subject(s): Water; Wells


WHAT RUTH WROTE:, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are precious to me
Last Line: In emily dickinson's home


WHAT SHALL I DO - IT WHIMPERS SO, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He'll tell me!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 186; Poem: 23


WHAT SHALL I DO WHEN THE SUMMER TROUBLES, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My perennial things?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 956; Poem: 91


WHAT SOFT, CHERUBIC CREATURES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Be so — ashamed of thee
Subject(s): Women


WHAT TENEMENTS OF CLOVER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or an assaulting guess
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1338; Poem: 135
Subject(s): Clover


WHAT WE SEE WE KNOW SOMEWHAT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Patented by adam
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1195; Poem: 127


WHAT WOULD I GIVE TO SEE HIS FACE?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My kingdom's worth of bliss!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 247; Poem: 26


WHATEVER IT IS SHE HAS TRIED IT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: License to think of us
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1204; Poem: 120


WHEN A LOVER IS A BEGGAR, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bread of heaven resents bestowal %like an obloquy
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1314; Poem: 133
Subject(s): Love


WHEN BELLS STOP RINGING - CHURCH BEGINS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The ultimate - of wheels
Variant Title(s): Poem: 633; Poem: 60
Subject(s): Bells


WHEN DIAMONDS ARE A LEGEND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And once - a butterfly
Variant Title(s): Poem: 397; Poem: 55
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


WHEN ETNA BASKS AND PURRS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Security is loud
Subject(s): Etna (volcano)


WHEN I COUNT THE SEEDS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I can spare this summer, reluctantly
Variant Title(s): Poem: 40; Poem: 5


WHEN I HAVE SEEN THE SUN EMERGE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The earth has seemed to me a drum, %pursued of little boys
Variant Title(s): Poem: 888; Poem: 109


WHEN I HOPED I FEARED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who hath suffered him
Subject(s): Perseverance


WHEN I HOPED, I RECOLLECT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Memory and I
Variant Title(s): Poem: 493; Poem: 76


WHEN I READ A REVIEW OF THE JOHN TRAVOLTA FILM, MICHAEL, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And that emily dickinson once said %that hope is a thing with feathers but
Last Line: Been more real to emily than any litany, %any psalms or hymns
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


WHEN I WAS SMALL, A WOMAN DIED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In yonder maryland
Subject(s): Death – Mothers; Death – Children; American Civil War


WHEN KATIE WALKS, THIS SIMPLE PAIR ACCOMPANY HER SIDE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ah! Katie! Smile at fortune, with two so knit to thee!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 222; Poem: 4


WHEN MEMORY IS FULL, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Presumptious evening said
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1266; Poem: 130
Subject(s): Memory


WHEN NIGHT IS ALMOST DONE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That frightened — but an hour
Subject(s): Night; Time


WHEN ONE HAS GIVEN UP ONE'S LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon the cataract
Variant Title(s): Poem: 853; Poem: 96


WHEN ROSES CEASE TO BLOOM, DEAR, SIR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then take my flowers — pray!
Subject(s): Transience


WHEN THE ASTRONOMER STOPS SEEKING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To ask what treason means
Variant Title(s): Poem: 851; Poem: 95
Subject(s): Treason And Traitors


WHEN THEY COME BACK - IF BLOSSOMS DO, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'll take back all I say
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1080; Poem: 104


WHEN WE HAVE CEASED TO CARE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To look upon
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1706; Poem: 173


WHEN WE STAND ON THE TOPS OF THINGS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As if an axle, held
Variant Title(s): Poem: 242; Poem: 34


WHERE BELLS NO MORE AFFRIGHT THE MORN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Could scare us any more!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 112; Poem: 11
Subject(s): Heaven


WHERE EVERY BIRD IS BOLD TO GO, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Must thrust the tears away
Subject(s): Courage


WHERE I HAVE LOST, I SOFTER TREAD, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Went home a century ago %next bliss!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 104; Poem: 15


WHERE ROSES WOULD NOT DARE TO GO, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To sound the enemy
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1582; Poem: 161


WHERE SHIPS OF PURPLE GENTLY TOSS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And then—the wharf is still!
Subject(s): Evening


WHERE THOU ART THAT IS HOME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tho' gabriel praise me sir
Variant Title(s): Poem: 725; Poem: 74


WHETHER MY BARK WENT DOWN AT SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Out upon the bay
Subject(s): Boats; Soul


WHETHER THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hardened with what I know
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1329; Poem: 133
Subject(s): Forgetfulness


WHICH IS BEST? HEAVEN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Too late to choose again
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1012; Poem: 102
Subject(s): Heaven


WHICH IS THE BEST - THE MOON OR THE CRESCENT?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He is prism born
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1315; Poem: 137


WHICH MISSES MOST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Without the strength to shape?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1759; Poem: 178


WHILE ASTERS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And covenant gentians - frill!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 33
Subject(s): Flowers


WHILE I WAS A FEARING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A whole existence through 
Subject(s): Fear


WHILE IT IS ALIVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While it is alive
Variant Title(s): Poem: 28


WHILE READING ABOUT EMILY DICKINSON, by KITTY HAMILTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw my mouth opening
Last Line: God, I cried, I'm ready %if you can use me


WHITE AS AN INDIAN PIPE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fabulous as a moon at noon %february hour
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1250; Poem: 119


WHO ABDICATED AMBUSH, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Secreted in a star
Variant Title(s): Poem: 161


WHO COURT OBTAIN WITHIN HIMSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Conspire against his own
Variant Title(s): Poem: 803; Poem: 85


WHO GIANTS KNOW, WITH LESSER MEN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Do not comprpomise the skies
Variant Title(s): Poem: 796; Poem: 84
Subject(s): Greatness


WHO GOES TO DINE MUST TAKE HIS FEAST, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Exhibit worthier
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1223; Poem: 121


WHO IS IT SEEKS MY PILLOW NIGHTS?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The phosphorus of god
Subject(s): Children; Night


WHO IS THE EAST?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That lets him out again
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1032; Poem: 108


WHO NEVER LOST, ARE UNPREPARED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: On this soldier's brow!
Subject(s): Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521); Adventure & Adventurers


WHO NEVER WANTED, - MADDEST JOY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Should disentrall thy soul
Subject(s): Human Behavior


WHO OCCUPIES THIS HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are mostly so -- to me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 892; Poem: 106


WHO ROBBED THE WOODS?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What will the fir-tree – say?
Subject(s): Deforestation


WHO SAW NO SUNRISE CANNOT SAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And could not find its eye
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1018; Poem: 102


WHO WERE 'THE FATHER AND THE SON', by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To own the miracle
Subject(s): Christianity


WHO WILL READ EMILY DICKINSON 500 MILLION YEARS FROM NOW?, by RAY SKJELBRED    Poem Source                    
Last Line: It is here. It is not here. %he is always alone


WHOEVER DISENCHANTS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Things are not what they were
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1451; Poem: 147


WHOLE GULFS OF RED, AND FLEETS OF RED, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That bows and disappears
Variant Title(s): Poem: 468; Poem: 65


WHOLE OF IT CAME NOT AT ONCE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For consciouser eclipse
Variant Title(s): Poem: 485; Poem: 76


WHOSE ARE THE LITTLE BEDS,' I ASKED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When april woods are red
Subject(s): Beds; Sleep


WHOSE CHEEK IS THIS?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My scrutiny deceives
Variant Title(s): Poem: 48; Poem: 8


WHOSE PINK CAREER MAY HAVE A CLOSE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To imitate these neighbors fleet %in awe and innocence, were meet
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1394; Poem: 142


WHY - DO THEY SHUT ME OUT OF HEAVEN?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Could - I - forbid?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 248; Poem: 26


WHY DO I LOVE' YOU, SIR?, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I love thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 480; Poem: 45
Subject(s): Love


WHY MAKE IT DOUBT - IT HURTS SO, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oh, master, this is misery
Variant Title(s): Poem: 462; Poem: 69
Subject(s): Pain


WHY SHOULD WE HURRY - WHY INDEED?, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Besets the sight %this mighty night
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1646; Poem: 168


WIFE AT DAYBREAK I SHALL BE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Savior -- I've seen the face -- before
Variant Title(s): Poem: 461; Poem: 18


WILD BLUE SKY ABREAST OF WINDS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their arrogant campaign
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1415; Poem: 141


WILD NIGHTS! WILD NIGHTS!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild nights! Wild nights! / were I with thee
Last Line: In thee
Subject(s): Passion


WIND (1), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's like the light,-- %a fashionless delight
Last Line: Best when it's done,-- %the everlasting clocks %chime noon
Variant Title(s): Poem: 297; Poem: 30
Subject(s): Noon; Wind


WIND BEGUN TO KNEAD THE GRASS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Just quartering a tree
Variant Title(s): A Thunder-storm (1st Version); Poem: 824 (1
Subject(s): Storms


WIND DIDN'T COME FROM THE ORCHARD TODAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Wouldn't you be the fool to stay?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 316; Poem: 49


WIND THAT ROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Restored in artic confidence %to the invisible
Variant Title(s): Poem: 125
Subject(s): Wind


WIND TOOK UP THE NORTHERN THINGS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The transport of the bird
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1134; Poem: 115
Subject(s): Wind


WINGED SPARK DOTH SOAR ABOUT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rekindled by some action quaint
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1468; Poem: 150


WINTER IS GOOD - HIS HOAR DELIGHTS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But welcome when he goes
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1316; Poem: 137
Subject(s): Winter


WINTER OF EMILY DICKINSON, by NANCY DONEGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A long white horse


WINTER UNDER CULTIVATION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is as arable as spring
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1707; Poem: 172
Subject(s): Plants


WINTERS ARE SO SHORT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And no one credits noah
Variant Title(s): Poem: 403; Poem: 53
Subject(s): Winter


WITCHCRAFT HAS NOT A PEDIGREE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The moment of our death
Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches; Death


WITCHCRAFT WAS HUNG IN HISTORY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Around us, every day
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1583; Poem: 161
Subject(s): Supernatural


WITH APOLOGIES TO EMILY DICKINSON, by MARLA J. STURDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did the harebell loose her girdle
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)


WITH FLOWERS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If recollecting were forgetting
Last Line: That gathered these to-day!
Subject(s): Flowers


WITH PINIONS OF DISDAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To put off filaments like this %for immortality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1431; Poem: 144
Subject(s): Soul


WITH SWEETNESS UNABATED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her residue be past
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1709; Poem: 171


WITH THEE, IN THE DESERT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Leopard breathes - at last!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 201; Poem: 20


WITHIN MY GARDEN, RIDES A BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: An exquisite reply
Variant Title(s): Poem: 500; Poem: 37
Subject(s): Birds


WITHIN MY REACH!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That passed, an hour ago!
Subject(s): Opportunity


WITHIN THAT LITTLE HIVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And dreams, reality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1607; Poem: 163
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality


WITHIN THY GRAVE!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To rend it with good night
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1552; Poem: 158


WITHOUT A SMILE - WITH A THROE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What a dissembling friend
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1330; Poem: 134


WITHOUT THIS THERE IS NOUGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And not reduce the gold
Variant Title(s): Poem: 464; Poem: 65


WOLFE DEMANDED DURING DYING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sweet' said he 'my own surrender %liberty's beguile'
Variant Title(s): Poem: 482; Poem: 67
Subject(s): Wolfe, James (1727-1759)


WONDER - IS NOT PRECISELY KNOWING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: This is the gnat that mangles men
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1331; Poem: 134


WORD DROPPED CARELESS ON A PAGE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: From the malaria
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1261; Poem: 126


WORD MADE FLESH IS SELDOM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like this consent of language, %this loved philology
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1651; Poem: 171
Subject(s): Bible; Language; Religion


WORDS THE HAPPY SAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are beautiful
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1750; Poem: 176
Subject(s): Language


WORK OF HER THAT WENT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: By fires of the sun
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1143; Poem: 115
Subject(s): Mothers; Mothers And Daughters; Women


WORLD FEELS DUSTY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Dews of thessaly, to fetch
Variant Title(s): Poem: 491; Poem: 71


WORLD IS NOT CONCLUSION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This world is not conclusion
Last Line: Narcotics cannot still the tooth %that nibbles at the soul
Variant Title(s): Poem: 373; Poem: 50
Subject(s): Immortality


WORLD MADE PENNILESS BY THAT DEPARTURE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The gods but dregs
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1623; Poem: 164


WORLD STANDS SOLEMNER TO ME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or posture to redeem?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 280; Poem: 49
Subject(s): Gratitude; Love - Marital; Marriage


WORTHLESSNESS OF EARTHLY THINGS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Till synods are inordinate
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1373; Poem: 140


WOULD YOU LIKE SUMMER? TASTE OF OURS, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But, which is it, sir?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 272; Poem: 69
Subject(s): Summer


YESTERDAY IS HISTORY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Flutter both away
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1292; Poem: 129
Subject(s): Past


YOU CANNOT MAKE REMEMBRANCE GROW, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It's iron buds will sprout anew %however overthrown
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1508; Poem: 153
Subject(s): Memory


YOU CANNOT PUT A FIRE OUT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And tell your cedar floor
Subject(s): Fire; Floods


YOU CANNOT TAKE ITSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As undiscovered gold
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1351; Poem: 135


YOU CONSTITUTED TIME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My slow idolatry
Variant Title(s): Poem: 488; Poem: 76
Subject(s): Time


YOU KNOW THAT PORTRAIT IN THE MOON, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That glazes holiday
Variant Title(s): Poem: 504; Poem: 67


YOU LOVE ME - YOU ARE SURE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: You sting - again!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 156; Poem: 21
Subject(s): Love


YOU LOVE THE LORD YOU CANNOT SEE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And mine's in heaven you see
Variant Title(s): Poem: 474; Poem: 48
Subject(s): God


YOU SAID THAT I 'WAS GREAT' ONE DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I suit thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 73
Subject(s): Love


YOU SEE I CANNOT SEE - YOUR LIFETIME, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It - only - can suffice!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 253; Poem: 31


YOU TAUGHT ME WAITING WITH MYSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Upon the further hand
Variant Title(s): Poem: 740; Poem: 77
Subject(s): Faith; Patience


YOU'LL FIND - IT WHEN YOU TRY TO DIE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We bought - to ease their place
Variant Title(s): Poem: 610; Poem: 44


YOU'LL KNOW - AS YOU KNOW 'TIS NOON, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Consult your eye!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 420; Poem: 42
Subject(s): Knowledge


YOU'LL KNOW HER -- BY HER FOOT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To keep the other still
Variant Title(s): Poem: 604; Poem: 63


YOU'RE RIGHT - 'THE WAY IS NARROW', by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And bad men - 'go to jail' - %I guess
Variant Title(s): Poem: 234; Poem: 24


YOUR RICHES TAUGHT ME POVERTY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: While just a girl at school
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Childhood Memories; School


YOUR THOUGHTS DON'T HAVE WORDS EVERY DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor its infrequency
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1452; Poem: 147
Subject(s): Thought


ZBIGNIEW HERBERT'S MR. COGITO MEETS EMILY DICKINSON: A LITERARY ...., by BARON WORMSER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The minuet of extroversion is not exquisite
Last Line: Pursuing heaven and earth


ZEROES TAUGHT US PHOSPHORUS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Unto vitality!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 284; Poem: 68