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 ...
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 ...
646I think to Live-may be a BlissTo those who dare to try-Beyond my limit to conceive-My lip-to testify-I think the ...
512The Soul has Bandaged moments-When too appalled to stir-She feels some ghastly Fright come upAnd stop to look at her-Salute ...
'Tis so appalling - it exhilarates -So over Horror, it half Captivates -The Soul stares after it, secure -A Sepulchre, ...
627The Tint I cannot take-is best-The Color too remoteThat I could show it in Bazaar-A Guinea at a sight-The fine-impalpable ...
501This World is not Conclusion.A species stands beyond-Invisible, as Music-But positive, as Sound-It beckons, and it baffles-Philosophy-don't know-And through a ...
493The World-stands-solemner-to me-Since I was wed-to Him-A modesty befits the soulThat bears another's-name-A doubt-if it be fair-indeed-To wear that perfect-pearl-The ...
945This is a Blossom of the Brain -A small - italic SeedLodged by Design or HappeningThe Spirit fructified -Shy as ...
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?Then crouch within the door -Red - is the Fire's common tint ...
54If I should die,And you should live-And time should gurgle on-And morn should beam-And noon should burn-As it has usual ...
777The Loneliness One dare not sound-And would as soon surmiseAs in its Grave go plumbingTo ascertain the size-The Loneliness whose ...
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 ...
159A little bread - a crust - a crumb -A little trust - a demijohn -Can keep the soul alive ...
He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keysBefore they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees,Prepares ...
915Faith - is the Pierless BridgeSupporting what We seeUnto the Scene that We do not -Too slender for the eyeIt ...
43Could live - did live -Could die - did die -Could smile upon the wholeThrough faith in one he met ...
A thought went up my mind to-dayThat I have had before,But did not finish, - some way back,I could not ...
Of all the souls that stand createI have elected one.When sense from spirit files away,And subterfuge is done;When that which ...
Pink, small, and punctual,Aromatic, low,Covert in April,Candid in May, Dear to the moss,Known by the knoll,Next to the robinIn every ...
269Bound - a trouble -And lives can bear it!Limit - how deep a bleeding go!So - many - drops - ...
346Not probable-The barest Chance-A smile too few-a word too muchAnd far from Heaven as the Rest-The Soul so close on ...
357God is a distant - stately Lover -Woos, as He states us - by His Son -Verily, a Vicarious Courtship ...
383Exhilaration - is within -There can no Outer WineSo royally intoxicateAs that diviner BrandThe Soul achieves - Herself -To drink ...
314Nature-sometimes sears a Sapling-Sometimes-scalps a Tree-Her Green People recollect itWhen they do not die-Fainter Leaves-to Further Seasons-Dumbly testify-We-who have the ...
894Of Consciousness, her awful MateThe Soul cannot be rid-As easy the secreting herBehind the Eyes of God.The deepest hid is ...
Departed to the judgment,A mighty afternoon;Great clouds like ushers leaning,Creation looking on.The flesh surrendered, cancelledThe bodiless begun;Two worlds, like audiences, ...
578The Body grows without-The more convenient way-That if the Spirit-like to hideIts Temple stands, alway,Ajar-secure-inviting-It never did betrayThe Soul that ...
927Absent Place - an April Day -Daffodils a-blowHomesick curiosityTo the Souls that snow -Drift may block within itDeeper than without ...
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