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 ...
566A Dying Tiger - moaned for Drink -I hunted all the Sand -I caught the Dripping of a RockAnd bore ...
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 ...
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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