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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
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All three series. This edition is based on on the first published collection, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson, which was released in three "series", the first of which appeared in 1890. According to Wikipedia, Mabel Loomis Todd "became friends with the Dickinsons, and though she never met Emily Dickinson in person, the two women exchanged letters. After Emily's death in 1886, hundreds of her unpublished poems were discovered. In 1888, Emily's sister Lavinia asked Todd to copy and organize the poems, which were to be sent to the publisher Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The first volume of Poems by Emily Dickinson was published in 1890. This version included many alterations by Todd. In 1896, Todd and the Dickinson family had a falling-out over a legal battle regarding property owned by Austin Dickinson. As a result, Emily Dickinson's manuscripts were split between the two families. In 1945, Todd's daughter Millicent published some of the poems from Todd's portion of the manuscripts."

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PublisherSeltzer Books
Release dateMar 1, 2018
ISBN9781455347070
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was an American poet. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a prominent family with strong ties to its community.

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    Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson

    POEMS BY EMILY DICKINSON

    The original edition, published in the 1890's, edited by two of her friends, and MABEL LOOMIS TODD and T.W.HIGGINSON

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    Series 1

    1 Life

    1 Success Success is counted sweetest

    2 Our share of night to bear,

    3 Rouge et Noir Soul, wilt thou toss again?

    4 Rouge Gagne 'T is so much joy! 'T is so much joy!

    5 Glee! The great storm is over!

    6 If I can stop one heart from breaking,

    7 Almost Within my reach!

    8 A wounded deer leaps highest,

    9 The heart asks pleasure first,

    10 In a Library A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is

    11 Much madness is divinest sense

    12 I asked no other thing,

    13 Exclusion The soul selects her own society,

    14 The Secret Some things that fly there be, --

    15 The Lonely House I know some lonely houses off the road

    16 To fight aloud is very brave,

    17 Dawn When night is almost done,

    18 The Book of Martyrs Read, sweet, how others strove,

    19 The Mystery of Pain Pain has an element of blank;

    20 I taste a liquor never brewed,

    21 A Book He ate and drank the precious words,

    22 I had no time to hate, because

    23 Unreturning 'T was such a little, little boat

    24 Whether my bark went down at sea,

    25 Belshazzar had a letter, --

    26 The brain within its groove

    2 Love

    1 Mine Mine by the right of the white election!

    2 Bequest You left me, sweet, two legacies, --

    3 Alter? When the hills do.

    4 Suspense Elysium is as far as to

    5 Surrender Doubt me, my dim companion!

    6 IF you were coming in the fall,

    7 With a Flower I hide myself within my flower,

    8 Proof That I did always love,

    9 Have you got a brook in your little heart,

    10 As if some little Arctic flower,

    11 The Outlet My river runs to thee:

    12 In Vain I CANNOT live with you,

    13 Renunciation There came a day at summer's full

    14 Love's Baptism I'm ceded, I've stopped being theirs;

    15 Resurrection 'T was a long parting, but the time

    16 Apocalypse I'm wife; I've finished that,

    17 The Wife She rose to his requirement, dropped

    18 Apotheosis Come slowly, Eden!

    3 Nature

    1 New feet within my garden go,

    2 May Flower Pink, small, and punctual,

    3 Why? THE murmur of a bee

    4 Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower?

    5 The pedigree of honey

    6 Service of Song Some keep the Sabbath going to church;

    7 The bee is not afraid of me,

    8 Some rainbow coming from the fair!

    9 The Grass The grass so little has to do, --

    10 A little road not made of man,

    11 Summer Shower A drop fell on the apple tree,

    12 Psalm of the Day A something in a summer's day,

    13 The Sea of Sunset This is the land the sunset washes,

    14 Purple Clover There is a flower that bees prefer,

    15 The Bee Like trains of cars on tracks of plush

    16 Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn

    17 As children bid the guest good-night,

    18 Angels in the early morning

    19 So bashful when I spied her,

    20 Two Worlds It makes no difference abroad,

    21 The Mountain The mountain sat upon the plain

    22 A Day I'll tell you how the sun rose, --

    23 The butterfiy's assumption-gown,

    24 The Wind Of all the sounds despatched abroad,

    25 Death and Life Apparently with no surprise

    26 'T WAS later when the summer went

    27 Indian Summer These are the days when birds come back,

    28 Autumn The morns are meeker than they were,

    29 Beclouded The sky is low, the clouds are mean,

    30 The Hemlock I think the hemlock likes to stand

    31 There's a certain slant of light,

    4 Time and Eternity

    1 One dignity delays for all,

    2 Too Late Delayed till she had ceased to know,

    3 Astra Castra Departed to the judgment,

    4 Safe in their alabaster chambers,

    5 On this long storm the rainbow rose,

    6 From the Chrysalis My cocoon tightens, colors tease,

    7 Setting Sail Exultation is the going

    8 Look back on time with kindly eyes,

    9 A train went through a burial gate,

    10 I died for beauty, but was scarce

    11 Troubled About Many Things How many times these low feet staggered,

    12 Real I like a look of agony,

    13 The Funeral That short, potential stir

    14 I went to thank her,

    15 I've seen a dying eye

    16 The clouds their backs together laid,

    17 I never saw a moor,

    18 Playmates God permits industrious angels

    19 To know just how he suffered would be dear;

    20 The last night that she lived,

    21 The First Lesson Not in this world to see his face

    22 The bustle in a house

    23 I reason, earth is short,

    24 Afraid? Of whom am I afraid?

    25 Dying The sun kept setting, setting still;

    26 Two swimmers wrestled on the spar

    27 The Chariot Because I could not stop for Death,

    28 Too Late She went as quiet as the dew

    29 Resurgam At last to be identified!

    30 Except to heaven, she is nought;

    31 Death is a dialogue between

    32 It was too late for man,

    33 Along the Potomac When I was small, a woman died.

    34 The daisy follows soft the sun,

    35 Emancipation No rack can torture me,

    36 Lost I lost a world the other day.

    37 If I shouldn't be alive

    38 Sleep is supposed to be,

    39 I shall know why, when time is over,

    40 I never lost as much but twice,

    Series 2

    1 Life

    1 I'm nobody! Who are you?

    2 I bring an unaccustomed wine

    3 The nearest dream recedes, unrealized.

    4 We play at paste,

    5 I found the phrase to every thought

    6 Hope Hope is the thing with feathers

    7 The White Heat Dare you see a soul at the white heat?

    8 Triumph Who never lost, are unprepared

    9 The Test I can wade grief,

    10 Escape I never hear the word escape

    11 Compensation For each ecstatic instant

    12 The Martyrs Through the straight pass of suffering

    13 Prayer I meant to have but modest needs,

    14 The thought beneath so slight a film

    15 The soul unto itself

    16 Surgeons must be very careful

    17 The Railway Train I like to see it lap the miles,

    18 The Show The show is not the show,

    19 Delight becomes pictorial

    20 A thought went up my mind to-day

    21 Is Heaven a physician?

    22 The Return Though I get home how late, how late!

    23 A poor torn heart, a tattered heart,

    24 Too Much I should have been too glad, I see,

    25 Shipwreck It tossed and tossed, --

    26 Victory comes late,

    27 Enough God gave a loaf to every bird,

    28 Experiment to me

    29 My Country's Wardrobe My country need not change her gown,

    30 Faith is a fine invention

    31 Except the heaven had come so near,

    32 Portraits are to daily faces

    33 The Duel I took my power in my hand.

    34 A shady friend for torrid days

    35 The Goal Each life converges to some centre

    36 Sight Before I got my eye put out,

    37 Talk with prudence to a beggar

    38 The Preacher He preached upon breadth till it argued him narrow, --

    39 Good night! which put the candle out?

    40 When I hoped I feared,

    41 Deed A deed knocks first at thought,

    42 Time's Lesson Mine enemy is growing old, --

    43 Remorse Remorse is memory awake,

    44 The Shelter The body grows outside, --

    45 Undue significance a starving man attaches

    46 Heart not so heavy as mine,

    47 I many times thought peace had come,

    48 Unto my books so good to turn

    49 This merit hath the worst, --

    50 Hunger I had been hungry all the years;

    51 I gained it so,

    52 To learn the transport by the pain,

    53 Returning I years had been from home,

    54 Prayer Prayer is the little implement

    55 I know that he exists

    56 Melodies Unheard Musicians wrestle everywhere:

    57 Called Back Just lost when I was saved!

    2 Love

    1 Choice Of all the souls that stand create

    2 I have no life but this,

    3 Your riches taught me poverty.

    4 I gave myself to him,

    5 The Letter "GOING to him! Happy letter! Tell him --

    6 The way I read a letter 's this:

    7 Wild nights! Wild nights!

    8 At Home The night was wide, and furnished scant

    9 Possession Did the harebell loose her girdle

    10 A charm invests a face

    11 The Lovers The rose did caper on her cheek,

    12 In lands I never saw, they say,

    13 The moon is distant from the sea,

    14 He put the belt around my life, --

    15 The Lost Jewel I held a jewel in my fingers

    16 What if I say I shall not wait?

    3 Nature

    1 Mother Nature Nature, the gentlest mother,

    2 Out of the Morning Will there really be a morning?

    3 At half-past three a single bird

    4 Day's Parlor The day came slow, till five o'clock,

    5 The Sun's Wooing The sun just touched the morning;

    6 The Robin The robin is the one

    7 The Butterfly's Day From cocoon forth a butterfly

    8 The Blue Bird Before you thought of spring,

    9 April An altered look about

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