Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine (Emily Dickinson Poems)
1Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine,Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine!Oh the Earth was made ...
1Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine,Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine!Oh the Earth was made ...
I cannot live with You —It would be Life —And Life is over there —Behind the ShelfThe Sexton keeps the ...
577If I may have it, when it's dead,I'll be contented-so-If just as soon as Breath is outIt shall belong to ...
It was not death, for I stood up,And all the dead lie down.It was not night, for all the bellsPut ...
There's been a Death, in the Opposite House,As lately as Today-I know it, by the numb lookSuch Houses have-alway-The Neighbors ...
499Those fair - fictitious People -The Women - plucked awayFrom our familiar Lifetime -The Men of Ivory -Those Boys and ...
'Tis so appalling - it exhilarates -So over Horror, it half Captivates -The Soul stares after it, secure -A Sepulchre, ...
Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality.We slowly drove, he ...
'T is so much joy! 'T is so much joy!If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as ...
721Behind Me - dips Eternity -Before Me - Immortality -Myself - the Term between -Death but the Drift of Eastern ...
286That after Horror-that 'twas us-That passed the mouldering Pier-Just as the Granite Crumb let go-Our Savior, by a Hair-A second ...
537Me prove it now-Whoever doubtMe stop to prove it-now-Make haste-the Scruple! Death be scantFor Opportunity-The River reaches to my feet-As ...
432Do People moulder equally,They bury, in the Grave?I do believe a SpeciesAs positively liveAs I, who testify itDeny that I ...
412I read my sentence-steadily-Reviewed it with my eyes,To see that I made no mistakeIn its extremest clause-The Date, and manner, ...
822This Consciousness that is awareOf Neighbors and the SunWill be the one aware of DeathAnd that itself aloneIs traversing the ...
973'Twas awkward, but it fitted me -An Ancient fashioned Heart -Its only lore - its Steadfastness -In Change - unerudite ...
165A Wounded Deer - leaps highest -I've heard the Hunter tell -'Tis but the Ecstasy of death -And then the ...
759He fought like those Who've nought to lose-Bestowed Himself to BallsAs One who for a further LifeHad not a further ...
338I know that He exists.Somewhere-in Silence-He has hid his rare lifeFrom our gross eyes.'Tis an instant's play.'Tis a fond Ambush-Just ...
566A Dying Tiger - moaned for Drink -I hunted all the Sand -I caught the Dripping of a RockAnd bore ...
715The World-feels DustyWhen We stop to Die-We want the Dew-then-Honors-taste dry-Flags-vex a Dying face-But the least FanStirred by a friend's ...
485To make One's Toilette—after DeathHas made the Toilette coolOf only Taste we cared to pleaseIs difficult, and still—That's easier—than Braid ...
938Fairer through Fading - as the DayInto the Darkness dips away -Half Her Complexion of the Sun -Hindering - Haunting ...
A toad can die of light! Death is the common right Of toads and men, - ...
922Those who have been in the Grave the longest-Those who begin Today-Equally perish from our Practise-Death is the other way-Foot ...
705Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death-tho'soever Broad,Is Just Death, and cannot increase-Suspense-does not conclude-But perishes-to live anew-But just anew to die-Annihilation-plated freshWith ...
749All but Death, can be Adjusted -Dynasties repaired -Systems - settled in their Sockets -Citadels - dissolved -Wastes of Lives ...
Not all die early, dying young-Maturity of FateIs consummated equallyIn Ages, or a Night-A Hoary Boy, I've known to dropWhole ...
706Life, and Death, and Giants-Such as These-are still-Minor-Apparatus-Hopper of the Mill-Beetle at the Candle-Or a Fife's Fame-Maintain-by Accident that they ...
You taught me Waiting with Myself -- Appointment strictly kept -- You taught me fortitude of Fate -- This -- ...
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