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 ...
648Promise This-When You be Dying-Some shall summon Me-Mine belong Your latest Sighing-Mine-to Belt Your Eye-Not with Coins-though they be MintedFrom ...
It was not death, for I stood up,And all the dead lie down.It was not night, for all the bellsPut ...
588I cried at Pity-not at Pain-I heard a Woman say"Poor Child"-and something in her voiceConvicted me-of me-So long I fainted, ...
Tie the strings to my life, my Lord, Then I am ready to go! Just a look ...
'T is so much joy! 'T is so much joy!If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as ...
271A solemn thing - it was - I said -A woman - white - to be -And wear - if ...
136Have you got a Brook in your little heart,Where bashful flowers blow,And blushing birds go down to drink,And shadows tremble ...
600It troubled me as once I was-For I was once a Child-Concluding how an Atom-fell-And yet the Heavens-held-The Heavens weighed ...
232The Sun-just touched the Morning-The Morning-Happy thing-Supposed that He had come to dwell-And Life would all be Spring!She felt herself ...
Each life converges to some centreExpressed or still;Exists in every human natureA goal,Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be,Too fairFor ...
580I gave myself to Him-And took Himself, for Pay,The solemn contract of a LifeWas ratified, this way-The Wealth might disappoint-Myself ...
Her final Summer was it-And yet We guessed it not-If tenderer industriousnessPervaded Her, We thoughtA further force of lifeDeveloped from ...
159A little bread - a crust - a crumb -A little trust - a demijohn -Can keep the soul alive ...
885Our little Kinsmen-after RainIn plenty may be seen,A Pink and Pulpy multitudeThe tepid Ground upon.A needless life, it seemed to ...
382For Death - or ratherFor the Things 'twould buy -This - put awayLife's Opportunity -The Things that Death will buyAre ...
I had no time to hate, becauseThe grave would hinder me,And life was not so ample ICould finish enmity.Nor had ...
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 ...
What would I give to see his face? I'd give -- I'd give my life -- of course -- But ...
To die -- without the Dying And live -- without the Life This is the hardest Miracle Propounded to Belief. ...
To earn it by disdaining it Is Fame's consummate Fee -- He loves what spurns him -- Look behind -- ...
There is a Languor of the Life More imminent than Pain -- 'Tis Pain's Successor -- When the Soul Has ...
The Sun -- just touched the Morning -- The Morning -- Happy thing -- Supposed that He had come to ...
The Manner of its Death When Certain it must die -- 'Tis deemed a privilege to choose -- 'Twas Major ...
The Love a Life can show Below Is but a filament, I know, Of that diviner thing That faints upon ...
The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is ...
That odd old man is dead a year -- We miss his stated Hat. 'Twas such an evening bright and ...
Summer is shorter than any one -- Life is shorter than Summer -- Seventy Years is spent as quick As ...
Promise This -- When You be Dying -- Some shall summon Me -- Mine belong Your latest Sighing -- Mine ...
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