Chats with Emily

Lectures on Emily Dickinson’s Poems by Dr. Tim McGee at Learnstrong.net

Suggested text for study:

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson (Little, Brown and Company, 1961)

Suggested on-line text for study:

Emily Dickinson: The Complete Works by Scholar and Translator Giuseppe Ierolli

https://www.emilydickinson.it/poesie.html

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (numerical order) – Johnson edition

1. Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine: https://youtu.be/ra6TiB2mOIM

2. There is another sky: https://youtu.be/Rop2dHC-CpY

3. Sic transit gloria mundi: https://youtu.be/ddrrcRs3ucs

4. On this wondrous sea: https://youtu.be/lus0D1HJLhc

5. I have a Bird in spring: https://youtu.be/kuc9AvgnYt0

6. Frequently the woods are pink: https://youtu.be/XujHM5pbrVg

7. The feet of people walking home: https://youtu.be/VdMXJrl72II

8. There is a word: https://youtu.be/N-Gqh94ekgk

9. Through lane it lay - thro' bramble: https://youtu.be/B7dH6mE3rnA

10. My Wheel is in the dark: https://youtu.be/E9YRXRifrK0

11. I never told the buried gold:

12. The morns are meeker than they were:

13. Sleep is supposed to be:

14. One Sister have I in our house:

15. The Guest is gold and crimson:

16. I would distil a cup:

17. Baffled for just a day or two:

18. The Gentian weaves her fringes:

19. A sepal, petal, and a thorn:

20. Distrustful of the Gentian:

21. We lose - because we win:

22. All these my banners be:

23. I had a guinea golden:

24. There is a morn by men unseen:

25. She slept beneath a tree:

26. It's all I have to bring today:

27. Morns like these - we parted:

28. So has a Daisy vanished:

29. If those I loved were lost:

30. Adrift! A little boat adrift!:

31. Summer for thee, grant I may be:

32. When Roses cease to bloom, Sir:

33. If recollecting were forgetting:

34. Garlands for Queens, may be:

35. Nobody knows this little Rose:

36. I counted till they danced so:

37. Before the ice is in the pools:

38. By such and such an offering:

39. It did not surprise me:

40. When I count the seeds:

41. I robbed the Woods:

42. A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!:

43. Could live - did live:

44. If she had been the Mistletoe:

45. There's something quieter than sleep:

46. I keep my pledge:

47. Heart! We will forget him!:

48. Once more, my now bewildered Dove:

49. I never lost as much but twice:

50. I haven’t told my garden yet:

51. I often passed the village:

52. Whether my bark went down at sea:

53. Taken from men - this morning:

54. If I should die:

55. By Chivalries as tiny:

56. If I should cease to bring a Rose:

57. To venerate the simple days:

58. Delayed till she had ceased to know:

59. A little East of Jordan:

60. Like her the Saints retire:

61. Papa above!:

62. "Sown in dishonor"!:

63. If pain for peace prepares:

64. Some Rainbow - coming from the Fair!:

65. I can't tell you - but you feel it:

66. So from the mould:

67. Success is counted sweetest: Success A: http://youtu.be/r3IuDXe34VQ Success B: http://youtu.be/qYsX1sP2eEU

68. Ambition cannot find him:

69. Low at my problem bending:

70. "Arcturus" is his other name:

71. A throe upon the features:

72. Glowing is her Bonnet:

73. Who never lost, are unprepared:

74. A Lady red - amid the Hill:

75. She died at play:

76. Exultation is the going:

77. I never hear the word "escape":

78. A poor - torn heart - a tattered heart:

79. Going to Heaven!:

80. Our lives are Swiss:

81. We should not mind so small a flower:

82. Whose cheek is this?:

83. Heart, not so heavy as mine:

84. Her breast is fit for pearls:

85. "They have not chosen me," he said:

86. South winds jostle them:

87. A darting fear - a pomp - a tear:

88. As by the dead we love to sit:

89. Some things that fly there be:

90. Within my reach!:

91. So bashful when I spied her!:

92. My friend must be a Bird:

93. Went up a year this evening!:

94. Angels, in the early morning:

95. My nosegays are for Captives:

96. Sexton! My Master's sleeping here:

97. The rainbow never tells me:

98. One dignity delays for all:

99. New feet within my garden go:

100. A science - so the Savants say:

101. Will there really be a "morning"?:

102. Great Caesar! Condescend:

103. I have a King, who does not speak:

104. Where I have lost, I softer tread:

105. To hang our head - ostensibly:

106. The Daisy follows soft the Sun:

107. 'Twas such a little - little boat:

108. Surgeons must be very careful:

109. By a flower - By a letter:

110. Artists wrestled here!:

111. The Bee is not afraid of me:

112. Where bells no more affright the morn:

113. Our share of night to bear:

114. Good night, because we must:

115. What Inn is this:

116. I had some things that I called mine:

117. In rags mysterious as these:

118. My friend attacks my friend!:

119. Talk with prudence to a Beggar:

120. If this is "fading":

121. As Watchers hang upon the East:

122. A something in a summer's Day:

123. Many cross the Rhine:

124. In lands I never saw - they say:

125. For each ecstatic instant:

126. To fight aloud, is very brave:

127. "Houses" - so the Wise Men tell me:

128. Bring me the sunset in a cup:

129. Cocoon above! Cocoon below!:

130. These are the days when Birds come back:

131. Besides the Autumn poets sing:

132. I bring an unaccustomed wine:

133. As Children bid the Guest "Good Night":

134. Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower:

135. Water, is taught by thirst: http://youtu.be/2KCVQuHQROs

136. Have you got a Brook in your little heart:

137. Flowers - Well - if anybody:

138. Pigmy seraphs - gone astray:

139. Soul, Wilt thou toss again?:

140. An altered look about the hills:

141. Some, too fragile for winter winds:

142. Whose are the little beds, I asked:

143. For every Bird a Nest:

144. She bore it till the simple veins:

145. This heart that broke so long:

146. On such a night, or such a night:

147. Bless God, he went as soldiers:

148. All overgrown by cunning moss:

149. She went as quiet as the Dew:

150. She died - this was the way she died:

151. Mute thy Coronation:

152. The Sun kept stooping - stooping - low!:

153. Dust is the only Secret:

154. Except to Heaven, she is nought:

155. The Murmur of a Bee:

156. You love me - you are sure:

157. Musicians wrestle everywhere:

158. Dying! Dying in the night!:

159. A little bread - a crust - a crumb:

160. Just lost, when I was saved!:

161. A feather from the Whippoorwill:

162. My River runs to Thee:

163. Tho' my destiny be Fustian:

164. Mama never forgets her birds:

165. A Wounded Deer - leaps highest:

166. I met a King this afternoon!:

167. To learn the Transport by the Pain -:

168. If the foolish, call them "flowers":

169. In Ebon Box, when years have flown:

170. Portraits are to daily faces:

171. Wait till the Majesty of Death:

172. 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy!:

173. A fuzzy fellow, without feet:

174. At last, to be identified!:

175. I have never seen "Volcanoes":

176. I'm the little "Heart's Ease"!:

177. Ah, Necromancy Sweet!:

178. I cautious, scanned my little life:

179. If I could bribe them by a Rose:

180. As if some little Arctic flower:

181. I lost a World - the other day!:

182. If I shouldn’t be alive:

183. I've heard an Organ talk, sometimes:

184. A transport one cannot contain:

185. "Faith" is a fine invention:

186. What shall I do - it whimpers so:

187. How many times these low feet staggered:

188. Make me a picture of the sun:

189. It's such a little thing to weep:

190. He was weak, and I was strong - then:

191. The Skies can’t keep their secret!:

192. Poor little Heart!:

193. I shall know why - when Time is over:

194. On this long storm the Rainbow rose:

195. For this - accepted Breath:

196. We don’t cry - Tim and I:

197. Morning - is the place for Dew:

198. An awful Tempest mashed the air:

199. I'm "wife" - I've finished that:

200. I stole them from a Bee:

201. Two swimmers wrestled on the spar:

202. My eye is fuller than my vase:

203. He forgot - and I - remembered:

204. A slash of Blue:

205. I should not dare to leave my friend:

206. The Flower must not blame the Bee:

207. Tho' I get home how late - how late:

208. The Rose did caper on her cheek:

209. With thee, in the Desert:

210. The thought beneath so slight a film:

211. Come slowly - Eden!:

212. Least Rivers - docile to some sea:

213. Did the Harebell loose her girdle:

214. I taste a liquor never brewed:

215. What is - "Paradise":

216. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers:

217. Savior! I've no one else to tell:

218. Is it true, dear Sue?:

219. She sweeps with many-colored Brooms:

220. Could I - then - shut the door:

221. It can't be "Summer"!:

222. When Katie walks, this simple pair accompany her side:

223. I Came to buy a smile - today:

224. I've nothing else - to bring, You know:

225. Jesus! thy Crucifix:

226. Should you but fail at - Sea:

227. Teach Him - When He makes the names:

228. Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple:

229. A Burdock - clawed my Gown:

230. We - Bee and I - live by the quaffing:

231. God permits industrious Angels:

232. The Sun - just touched the Morning:

233. The Lamp burns sure - within:

234. You're right - "the way is narrow":

235. The Court is far away:

236. If He dissolve - then - there is nothing - more:

237. I think just how my shape will rise:

238. Kill your Balm - and it's Odors bless you:

239. "Heaven" - is what I cannot reach!:

240. Ah, Moon - and Star!:

241. I like a look of Agony:

242. When we stand on the tops of Things:

243. I've known a Heaven, like a Tent:

244. It is easy to work when the soul is at play:

245. I held a Jewel in my fingers:

246. Forever at His side to walk:

247. What would I give to see his face?:

248. Why - do they shut me out of Heaven?:

249. Wild Nights - Wild Nights!:

250. I shall keep singing!:

251. Over the fence:

252. I can wade Grief:

253. You see I cannot see - your lifetime:

254. "Hope" is the thing with feathers: https://youtu.be/Rikg2LrWrOM

255. To die - takes just a little while:

256. If I'm lost - now:

257. Delight is as the flight:

258. There's a certain Slant of light: http://youtu.be/F-4MyomIx50

259. Good Night! Which put the Candle out?:

260. Read - Sweet - how others - strove:

261. Put up my lute!:

262. The lonesome for they know not What:

263. A single Screw of Flesh:

264. A Weight with Needles on the pounds:

265. Where Ships of Purple - gently toss:

266. This - is the land - the Sunset washes:

267. Did we disobey Him?:

268. Me, change! Me, alter!:

269. Bound - a trouble:

270. One Life of so much consequence!:

271. A solemn thing - it was - I said:

272. I breathed enough to take the Trick:

273. He put the Belt around my life:

274. The only Ghost I ever saw:

275. Doubt Me! My Dim Companion!:

276. Many a phrase has the English language:

277. What if I say I shall not wait!:

278. A shady friend - for Torrid days:

279. Tie the Strings to my Life, My Lord:

280. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain:

281. 'Tis so appalling - it exhilarates:

282. How noteless Men, and Pleiads, stand:

283. A Mien to move a Queen:

284. The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea:

285. The Robin's my Criterion for Tune:

286. That after Horror - that 'twas us:

287. A Clock stopped:

288. I'm Nobody! Who are you?: https://youtu.be/Lb0xwFjjUCg

289. I know some lonely Houses off the Road:

290. Of Bronze - and Blaze:

291. How the old Mountains drip with Sunset:

292. If your Nerve, deny you:

293. I got so I could take his name:

294. The Doomed - regard the Sunrise:

295. Unto like Story - Trouble has enticed me:

296. One Year ago - jots what?:

297. It's like the Light:

298. Alone, I cannot be:

299. Your Riches - taught me - Poverty:

300. "Morning" - means "Milking" - to the Farmer:

301. I reason, Earth is short:

302. Like Some Old fashioned Miracle:

303. The Soul selects her own Society: http://youtu.be/eG1Pxq7FngE

304. The Day came slow - till Five o'clock:

305. The difference between Despair:

306. The Soul's Superior instants:

307. The One who could repeat the Summer day:

308. I send Two Sunsets:

309. For largest Woman's Heart I knew:

310. Give little Anguish:

311. It sifts from Leaden Sieves:

312. Her - "last Poems":

313. I should have been too glad, I see:

314. Nature - sometimes sears a Sapling:

315. He fumbles at your Soul:

316. The Wind didn’t come from the Orchard - today:

317. Just so - Jesus - raps:

318. I'll tell you how the Sun rose:

319. The nearest Dream recedes - unrealized:

320. We play at Paste:

321. Of all the Sounds despatched abroad:

322. There came a Day at Summer's full:

323. As if I asked a common Alms:

324. Some keep the Sabbath going to Church:

325. Of Tribulation - these are They:

326. I cannot dance upon my Toes:

327. Before I got my eye put out:

328. A Bird came down the Walk:

329. So glad we are - a Stranger'd deem:

330. The Juggler's Hat her Country is:

331. While Asters:

332. There are two Ripenings - one - of sight:

333. The Grass so little has to do:

334. All the letters I can write:

335. 'Tis not that Dying hurts us so:

336. The face I carry with me - last:

337. I know a place where Summer strives:

338. I know that He exists:

339. I tend my flowers for thee:

340. Is Bliss then, such Abyss:

341. After great pain, a formal feeling comes:

342. It will be Summer - eventually:

343. My Reward for Being, was This:

344. 'Twas the old - road - through pain:

345. Funny - to be a Century:

346. Not probable - The barest Chance:

347. When Night is almost done:

348. I dreaded that first Robin, so:

349. I had the Glory - that will do:

350. They leave us with the Infinite:

351. I felt my life with both my hands:

352. Perhaps I asked too large:

353. A happy lip - breaks sudden:

354. From Cocoon forth a Butterfly:

355. 'Tis Opposites - entice:

356. The Day that I was crowned:

357. God is a distant - stately Lover:

358. If any sink, assure that this, now standing:

359. I gained it so:

360. Death sets a Thing significant:

361. What I can do - I will:

362. It struck me - every Day:

363. I went to thank Her:

364. The Morning after Woe:

365. Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?:

366. Although I put away his life:

367. Over and over, like a Tune:

368. How sick - to wait - in any place - but thine:

369. She lay as if at play:

370. Heaven is so far of the Mind:

371. A precious - mouldering pleasure - 'tis:

372. I know lives, I could miss:

373. I'm saying every day:

374. I went to Heaven:

375. The Angle of a Landscape:

376. Of Course - I prayed:

377. To lose One's faith - surpass:

378. I saw no Way - The Heavens were stitched:

379. Rehearsal to Ourselves:

380. There is a flower that Bees prefer:

381. A Secret told:

382. For Death - or rather:

383. Exhilaration - is within:

384. No Rack can torture me:

385. Smiling back from Coronation:

386. Answer July:

387. The Sweetest Heresy received:

388. Take Your Heaven further on:

389. There's been a Death, in the Opposite House:

390. It's Coming - the postponeless Creature:

391. A Visitor in Marl:

392. Through the Dark Sod - as Education:

393. Did Our Best Moment last:

394. 'Twas Love - not me:

395. Reverse cannot befall:

396. There is a Languor of the Life:

397. When Diamonds are a Legend:

398. I had not minded - Walls:

399. A House upon the Height:

400. A Tongue - to tell Him I am true!:

401. What Soft - Cherubic Creatures:

402. I pay - in Satin Cash:

403. The Winters are so short:

404. How many Flowers fail in Wood:

405. It might be lonelier:

406. Some - Work for Immortality:

407. If What we could - were what we would:

408. Unit, like Death, for Whom?:

409. They dropped like Flakes:

410. The first Day's Night had come:

411. The Color of the Grave is Green:

412. I read my sentence - steadily:

413. I never felt at Home - Below:

414. 'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch:

415. Sunset at Night - is natural:

416. A Murmur in the Trees - to note:

417. It is dead - Find it:

418. Not in this World to see his face:

419. We grow accustomed to the Dark: https://youtu.be/zaF7Gs6hVSY

420. You'll know it - as you know 'tis Noon:

421. A Charm invests a face:

422. More Life - went out - when He went:

423. The Months have ends - the Years - a knot:

424. Removed from Accident of Loss:

425. Good Morning - Midnight:

426. It don’t sound so terrible - quite - as it did:

427. I'll clutch - and clutch:

428. Taking up the fair Ideal:

429. The Moon is distant from the Sea:

430. It would never be Common - more - I said:

431. Me - come! My dazzled face:

432. Do People moulder equally:

433. Knows how to forget!:

434. To love thee Year by Year:

435. Much Madness is divinest Sense: https://youtu.be/JtPaJMgKZwU

436. The Wind - tapped like a tired Man: https://youtu.be/Lk_eWZYkWEE

437. Prayer is the little implement:

438. Forget! The lady with the Amulet:

439. Undue Significance a starving man attaches:

440. 'Tis Customary as we part:

441. This is my letter to the World:

442. God made a little Gentian:

443. I tie my Hat - I crease my Shawl:

444. It feels a shame to be Alive:

445. 'Twas just this time, last year, I died:

446. I showed her Heights she never saw:

447. Could - I do more - for Thee:

448. This was a Poet – It is That:

449. I died for Beauty - but was scarce:

450. Dreams - are well - but Waking's better:

451. The Outer - from the Inner:

452. The Malay - took the Pearl:

453. Love - thou art high:

454. It was given to me by the Gods:

455. Triumph - may be of several kinds:

456. So well that I can live without:

457. Sweet - safe - Houses:

458. Like eyes that looked on Wastes:

459. A Tooth upon Our Peace:

460. I know where Wells grow - Droughtless Wells:

461. A Wife - at daybreak I shall be:

462. Why make it doubt - it hurts it so:

463. I live with Him - I see His face:

464. The power to be true to You:

465. I heard a Fly buzz - when I died: http://youtu.be/lVVo1K4wtgE

466. 'Tis little I - could care for Pearls:

467. We do not play on Graves:

468. The Manner of its Death:

469. The Red - Blaze - is the Morning:

470. I am alive - I guess:

471. A Night - there lay the Days between:

472. Except the Heaven had come so near:

473. I am ashamed - I hide:

474. They put Us far apart:

475. Doom is the House without the Door:

476. I meant to have but modest needs:

477. No Man can compass a Despair:

478. I had no time to Hate:

479. She dealt her pretty words like Blades -:

480. "Why do I love" You, Sir?:

481. The Himmaleh was known to stoop:

482. We Cover Thee - Sweet Face:

483. A Solemn thing within the Soul:

484. My Garden - like the Beach:

485. To make One's Toilette - after Death:

486. I was the slightest in the House:

487. You love the Lord - you cannot see:

488. Myself was formed - a Carpenter:

489. We pray - to Heaven:

490. To One denied the drink:

491. While it is alive:

492. Civilization - spurns - the Leopard!:

493. The World - stands - solemner - to me:

494. Going to Him! Happy letter!:

495. It's thoughts - and just One Heart:

496. As far from pity, as complaint:

497. He strained my faith:

498. I envy Seas, whereon He rides:

499. Those fair - fictitious People:

500. Within my Garden, rides a Bird:

501. This World is not Conclusion:

502. At least - to pray - is left - is left:

503. Better - than Music! For I - who heard it:

504. You know that Portrait in the Moon:

505. I would not paint - a picture:

506. He touched me, so I live to know:

507. She sights a Bird - she chuckles:

508. I'm ceded - I've stopped being Theirs:

509. If anybody's friend be dead:

510. It was not Death, for I stood up:

511. If you were coming in the Fall:

512. The Soul has Bandaged moments:

513. Like Flowers, that heard the news of Dews:

514. Her smile was shaped like other smiles:

515. No Crowd that has occurred:

516. Beauty - be not caused - It Is:

517. He parts Himself - like Leaves:

518. Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night:

519. 'Twas warm - at first - like Us:

520. I started Early - Took my Dog:

521. Endow the Living - with the Tears:

522. Had I presumed to hope:

523. Sweet - You forgot - but I remembered:

524. Departed - to the Judgment:

525. I think the Hemlock likes to stand:

526. To hear an Oriole sing:

527. To put this World down, like a Bundle:

528. Mine - by the Right of the White Election!:

529. I'm sorry for the Dead - Today:

530. You cannot put a Fire out:

531. We dream - it is good we are dreaming:

532. I tried to think a lonelier Thing:

533. Two Butterflies went out at Noon:

534. We see - Comparatively:

535. She's happy, with a new Content:

536. The Heart asks Pleasure - first:

537. Me prove it now - Whoever doubt:

538. 'Tis true - They shut me in the Cold:

539. The Province of the Saved:

540. I took my Power in my Hand:

541. Some such Butterfly be seen:

542. I had no Cause to be awake:

543. I fear a Man of frugal Speech:

544. The Martyr Poets - did not tell:

545. 'Tis One by One - the Father counts:

546. To fill a Gap:

547. I've seen a Dying Eye:

548. Death is potential to that Man:

549. That I did always love:

550. I cross till I am weary:

551. There is a Shame of Nobleness:

552. An ignorance a Sunset:

553. One Crucifixion is recorded - only:

554. The Black Berry - wears a Thorn in his side:

555. Trust in the Unexpected:

556. The Brain, within its Groove:

557. She hideth Her the last:

558. But little Carmine hath her face:

559. It knew no Medicine:

560. It knew no lapse, nor Diminution:

561. I measure every Grief I meet:

562. Conjecturing a Climate:

563. I could not prove the Years had feet:

564. My period had come for Prayer:

565. One Anguish - in a Crowd:

566. A Dying Tiger - moaned for Drink:

567. He gave away his Life:

568. We learned the Whole of Love:

569. I reckon - when I count at all:

570. I could die - to know:

571. Must be a Woe:

572. Delight - becomes pictorial:

573. The Test of Love - is Death:

574. My first well Day - since many ill:

575. "Heaven" has different Signs - to me:

576. I prayed, at first, a little Girl:

577. If I may have it, when it's dead:

578. The Body grows without:

579. I had been hungry, all the Years:

580. I gave myself to Him:

581. I found the words to every thought:

582. Inconceivably solemn!:

583. A Toad, can die of Light:

584. It ceased to hurt me, though so slow:

585. I like to see it lap the Miles:

586. We talked as Girls do:

587. Empty my Heart, of Thee:

588. I cried at Pity - not at Pain:

589. The Night was wide, and furnished scant:

590. Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth:

591. To interrupt His Yellow Plan:

592. What care the Dead, for Chanticleer:

593. I think I was enchanted:

594. The Battle fought between the Soul:

595. Like Mighty Foot Lights - burned the Red:

596. When I was small, a Woman died:

597. It always felt to me - a wrong:

598. Three times - we parted - Breath - and I:

599. There is a pain - so utter:

600. It troubled me as once I was:

601. A still - Volcano - Life:

602. Of Brussels - it was not:

603. He found my Being - set it up:

604. Unto my Books - so good to turn:

605. The Spider holds a Silver Ball:

606. The Trees like Tassels - hit - and swung:

607. Of nearness to her sundered Things:

608. Afraid! Of whom am I afraid?:

609. I - Years - had been - from Home:

610. You'll find - it when you try to die:

611. I see thee better - in the Dark:

612. It would have starved a Gnat:

613. They shut me up in Prose: https://youtu.be/i3KwCJHKLSU

614. In falling Timbers buried:

615. Our journey had advanced:

616. I rose - because He sank:

617. Don’t put up my Thread & Needle:

618. At leisure is the Soul:

619. Glee - The great storm is over:

620. It makes no difference abroad:

621. I asked no other thing:

622. To know just how He suffered - would be dear:

623. It was too late for Man:

624. Forever - is composed of Nows:

625. 'Twas a long Parting - but the time:

626. Only God - detect the Sorrow:

627. The Tint I cannot take - is best:

628. They called me to the Window, for:

629. I watched the Moon around the House:

630. The Lightning playeth - all the while:

631. Ourselves were wed one summer - dear:

632. The Brain - is wider than the Sky: http://youtu.be/Q4YljcR6DZY

633. When Bells stop ringing - Church - begins :

634. You'll know Her - by Her Foot:

635. I think the longest Hour of all:

636. The Way I read a Letter's - this:

637. The Child's faith is new:

638. To my small Hearth His fire came:

639. My Portion is Defeat - today:

640. I cannot live with You:

641. Size circumscribes - it has no room:

642. Me from Myself - to banish:

643. I could suffice for Him, I knew:

644. You left me - Sire - two Legacies:

645. Bereavement in their death to feel:

646. I think to Live - may be a Bliss:

647. A little Road - not made of Man:

648. Promise This - When You be Dying:

649. Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead:

650. Pain - has an Element of Blank:

651. So much Summer:

652. A Prison gets to be a friend:

653. Of Being is a Bird:

654. A long - long Sleep – A famous – Sleep:

655. Without this - there is nought:

656. The name - of it - is "Autumn":

657. I dwell in Possibility:

658. Whole Gulfs - of Red, and Fleets - of Red:

659. That first Day, when you praised Me, Sweet:

660. 'Tis good - the looking back on Grief:

661. Could I but ride indefinite:

662. Embarrassment of one another:

663. Again - his voice is at the door:

664. Of all the Souls that stand create:

665. Dropped into the Ether Acre:

666. Ah, Teneriffe!:

667. Bloom upon the Mountain - stated:

668. "Nature" is what we see:

669. No Romance sold unto:

670. One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted:

671. She dwelleth in the Ground:

672. The Future - never spoke:

673. The Love a Life can show Below:

674. The Soul that hath a Guest:

675. Essential Oils - are wrung:

676. Least Bee that brew:

677. To be alive - is Power:

678. Wolfe demanded during dying:

679. Conscious am I in my Chamber:

680. Each Life Converges to some Centre:

681. Soil of Flint, if steady tilled:

682. 'Twould ease - a Butterfly:

683. The Soul unto itself: https://youtu.be/zJkY8myKS0U

684. Best Gains - must have the Losses' Test:

685. Not "Revelation" - 'tis - that waits:

686. They say that "Time assuages":

687. I'll send the feather from my Hat!:

688. "Speech" - is a prank of Parliament:

689. The Zeroes - taught us - Phosphorous:

690. Victory comes late:

691. Would you like summer? Taste of ours:

692. The Sun kept setting - setting - still:

693. Shells from the Coast mistaking:

694. The Heaven vests for Each:

695. As if the Sea should part:

696. Their Height in Heaven comforts not:

697. I could bring You Jewels - had I a mind to:

698. Life - is what we make of it:

699. The Judge is like the Owl:

700. You've seen Balloons set - Haven't You? :

701. A Thought went up my mind today:

702. A first Mute Coming:

703. Out of sight? What of that?:

704. No matter - now - Sweet:

705. Suspense - is Hostiler than Death:

706. Life, and Death, and Giants:

707. The Grace - Myself - might not obtain:

708. I sometimes drop it, for a Quick:

709. Publication - is the Auction:

710. The Sunrise runs for Both:

711. Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds:

712. Because I could not stop for Death: http://youtu.be/TfHn8x9_0Ak

713. Fame of Myself, to justify:

714. Rests at Night:

715. The World - feels Dusty:

716. The Day undressed - Herself:

717. The Beggar Lad - dies early:

718. I meant to find Her when I came:

719. A South Wind - has a pathos:

720. No Prisoner be:

721. Behind Me - dips Eternity:

722. Sweet Mountains - Ye tell Me no lie:

723. It tossed - and tossed:

724. It's easy to invent a Life:

725. Where Thou art - that - is Home:

726. We thirst at first - 'tis Nature's Act:

727. Precious to Me - She still shall be:

728. Let Us play Yesterday:

729. Alter! When the Hills do:

730. Defrauded I a Butterfly:

731. "I want" - it pleaded - All its life:

732. She rose to His Requirement - dropt:

733. The Spirit is the Conscious Ear:

734. If He were living - dare I ask:

735. Upon Concluded Lives:

736. Have any like Myself:

737. The Moon was but a Chin of Gold:

738. You said that I "was Great" - one Day:

739. I many times thought Peace had come:

740. You taught Me Waiting with Myself:

741. Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day:

742. Four Trees - upon a solitary Acre:

743. The Birds reported from the South:

744. Remorse - is Memory - awake:

745. Renunciation - is a piercing Virtue:

746. Never for Society:

747. It dropped so low - in my Regard:

748. Autumn - overlooked my Knitting:

749. All but Death, Can be Adjusted:

750. Growth of Man - like Growth of Nature:

751. My Worthiness is all my Doubt:

752. So the Eyes accost - and sunder:

753. My Soul - accused Me - And I quailed:

754. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun:

755. No Bobolink - reverse His Singing:

756. One Blessing had I than the rest:

757. The Mountains - grow unnoticed:

758. These - saw Visions:

759. He fought like those Who've nought to lose:

760. Most she touched me by her muteness:

761. From Blank to Blank:

762. The Whole of it came not at once:

763. He told a homely tale:

764. Presentiment - is that long Shadow - on the Lawn:

765. You constituted Time:

766. My Faith is larger than the Hills:

767. To offer brave assistance:

768. When I hoped, I recollect:

769. One and One - are One:

770. I lived on Dread:

771. None can experience stint:

772. The hallowing of Pain:

773. Deprived of other Banquet:

774. It is a lonesome Glee:

775. If Blame be my side - forfeit Me:

776. The Color of a Queen, is this:

777. The Loneliness One dare not sound:

778. This that would greet - an hour ago:

779. The Service without Hope:

780. The Truth - is stirless:

781. To wait an Hour - is long:

782. There is an arid Pleasure:

783. The Birds begun at Four o'clock:

784. Bereaved of all, I went abroad:

785. They have a little Odor - that to me:

786. Severer Service of myself:

787. Such is the Force of Happiness:

788. Joy to have merited the Pain:

789. On a Columnar Self:

790. Nature - the Gentlest Mother is:

791. God gave a Loaf to every Bird:

792. Through the strait pass of suffering:

793. Grief is a Mouse:

794. A Drop fell on the Apple Tree:

795. Her final Summer was it:

796. Who Giants know, with lesser Men:

797. By my Window have I for Scenery:

798. She staked her Feathers - Gained an Arc:

799. Despair's advantage is achieved:

800. Two - were immortal twice:

801. I play at Riches - to appease:

802. Time feels so vast that were it not:

803. Who Court obtain within Himself:

804. No Notice gave She, but a Change:

805. This Bauble was preferred of Bees:

806. A Planted Life - diversified:

807. Expectation - is Contentment:

808. So set its Sun in Thee:

809. Unable are the Loved to die:

810. Her Grace is all she has:

811. The Veins of other Flowers:

812. A Light exists in Spring:

813. This quiet Dust was Gentleman and Ladies:

814. One Day is there of the Series:

815. The Luxury to apprehend:

816. A Death blow - is a Life blow to Some:

817. Given in Marriage unto Thee:

818. I could not drink it, Sweet:

819. All I may, if small:

820. All Circumstances are the Frame:

821. Away from Home, are some and I:

822. This Consciousness that is aware:

823. Not what We did, shall be the test:

824. [1] The Wind begun to knead the Grass:

[2] The Wind begun to rock the Grass:

825. An Hour is a Sea:

826. Love reckons by itself - alone:

827. The Only News I know:

828. The Robin is the One:

829. Ample make this Bed:

830. To this World she returned:

831. Dying! To be afraid of thee:

832. Soto! Explore thyself!:

833. Perhaps you think me stooping:

834. Before He comes, We weigh the Time!:

835. Nature and God - I neither knew:

836. Truth - is as old as God:

837. How well I knew Her not:

838. Impossibility, like Wine:

839. Always Mine!:

840. I cannot buy it - 'tis not sold:

841. A Moth the hue of this:

842. Good to hide, and hear 'em hunt!:

843. I made slow Riches but my Gain:

844. Spring is the Period:

845. Be Mine the Doom:

846. Twice had Summer her fair Verdure:

847. Finite - to fail, but infinite to Venture:

848. Just as He spoke it from his Hands:

849. The good Will of a Flower:

850. I sing to use the Waiting:

851. When the Astronomer stops seeking:

852. Apology for Her:

853. When One has given up One's life:

854. Banish Air from Air:

855. To own the Art within the Soul:

856. There is a finished feeling:

857. Uncertain lease - develops lustre:

858. This Chasm, Sweet, upon my life:

859. A doubt if it be Us:

860. Absence disembodies - so does Death:

861. Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music:

862. Light is sufficient to itself:

863. That Distance was between Us:

864. The Robin for the Crumb:

865. He outstripped Time with but a Bout:

866. Fame is the tint that Scholars leave:

867. Escaping backward to perceive:

868. They ask but our Delight:

869. Because the Bee may blameless hum:

870. Finding is the first Act:

871. The Sun and Moon must make their haste:

872. As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies:

873. Ribbons of the Year:

874. They won’t frown always - some sweet Day:

875. I stepped from Plank to Plank:

876. It was a Grave, yet bore no Stone:

877. Each Scar I'll keep for Him:

878. The Sun is gay or stark:

879. Each Second is the last:

880. The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb:

881. I've none to tell me to but Thee:

882. A Shade upon the mind there passes:

883. The Poets light but Lamps:

884. An Everywhere of Silver:

885. Our little Kinsmen - after Rain:

886. These tested Our Horizon:

887. We outgrow love, like other things:

888. When I have seen the Sun emerge:

889. Crisis is a Hair:

890. From Us She wandered now, a Year:

891. To my quick ear the Leaves - conferred:

892. Who occupies this House?:

893. Drab Habitation of Whom?:

894. Of Consciousness, her awful Mate:

895. A Cloud withdrew from the Sky:

896. Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe:

897. How fortunate the Grave:

898. How happy I was if I could forget:

899. Herein a Blossom lies:

900. What did They do since I saw Them?:

901. Sweet, to have had them lost:

902. The first Day that I was a Life:

903. I hide myself within my flower:

904. Had I not This, or This, I said:

905. Between My Country - and the Others:

906. The Admirations - and Contempts - of time:

907. Till Death - is narrow Loving:

908. 'Tis Sunrise - Little Maid - Hast Thou:

909. I make His Crescent fill or lack:

910. Experience is the Angled Road:

911. Too little way the House must lie:

912. Peace is a fiction of our Faith:

913. And this of all my Hopes:

914. I cannot be ashamed:

915. Faith - is the Pierless Bridge:

916. His Feet are shod with Gauze:

917. Love - is anterior to Life:

918. Only a Shrine, but Mine:

919. If I can stop one Heart from breaking:

920. We can but follow to the Sun:

921. If it had no pencil:

922. Those who have been in the Grave the longest:

923. How the Waters closed above Him:

924. Love - is that later Thing than Death:

925. Struck, was I, not yet by Lightning:

926. Patience - has a quiet Outer:

927. Absent Place - an April Day:

928. The Heart has narrow Banks:

929. How far is it to Heaven?:

930. There is a June when Corn is cut:

931. Noon - is the Hinge of Day:

932. My best Acquaintances are those:

933. Two Travellers perishing in Snow:

934. That is solemn we have ended:

935. Death leaves Us homesick, who behind:

936. This Dust, and it's Feature:

937. I felt a Cleaving in my Mind:

938. Fairer through Fading - as the Day:

939. What I see not, I better see:

940. On that dear Frame the Years had worn:

941. The Lady feeds Her little Bird:

942. Snow beneath whose chilly softness:

943. A Coffin - is a small Domain:

944. I learned - at least - what Home could be:

945. This is a Blossom of the Brain:

946. It is an honorable Thought:

947. Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause?:

948. 'Twas Crisis - All the length had passed:

949. Under the Light, yet under:

950. The Sunset stopped on Cottages:

951. As Frost is best conceived:

952. A Man may make a Remark:

953. A Door just opened on a street:

954. The Chemical conviction:

955. The Hollows round His eager Eyes:

956. What shall I do when the Summer troubles:

957. As One does Sickness over:

958. We met as Sparks - Diverging Flints:

959. A loss of something ever felt I:

960. As plan for Noon and plan for Night:

961. Wert Thou but ill - that I might show thee:

962. Midsummer, was it, when They died:

963. A nearness to Tremendousness:

964. "Unto Me"? I do not know you:

965. Denial - is the only fact:

966. All forgot for recollecting:

967. Pain - expands the Time:

968. Fitter to see Him, I may be:

969. He who in Himself believes:

970. Color - Caste - Denomination:

971. Robbed by Death - but that was easy:

972. Unfulfilled to Observation:

973. 'Twas awkward, but it fitted me:

974. The Soul's distinct connection:

975. The Mountain sat upon the Plain:

976. Death is a Dialogue between:

977. Besides this May:

978. It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon:

979. This Merit hath the worst:

980. Purple - is fashionable twice:

981. As Sleigh Bells seem in summer:

982. No Other can reduce:

983. Ideals are the Fairy Oil:

984. 'Tis Anguish grander than Delight:

985. The Missing All - prevented Me:

986. A narrow Fellow in the Grass:

987. The Leaves like Women interchange:

988. The Definition of Beauty is:

989. Gratitude - is not the mention:

990. Not all die early, dying young:

991. She sped as Petals of a Rose:

992. The Dust behind I strove to join:

993. We miss Her, not because We see:

994. Partake as doth the Bee:

995. This was in the White of the Year:

996. We'll pass without the parting:

997. Crumbling is not an instant's Act:

998. Best Things dwell out of Sight:

999. Superfluous were the Sun:

1000. The Fingers of the Light:

1001. The Stimulus, beyond the Grave:

1002. Aurora is the effort:

1003. Dying at my music!:

1004. There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent:

1005. Bind me - I still can sing:

1006. The first We knew of Him was Death:

1007. Falsehood of Thee, could I suppose:

1008. How still the Bells in Steeples stand:

1009. I was a Phoebe - nothing more:

1010. Up Life's Hill with my my little Bundle:

1011. She rose as high as His Occasion:

1012. Which is best? Heaven:

1013. Too scanty 'twas to die for you:

1014. Did We abolish Frost:

1015. Were it but Me that gained the Height:

1016. The Hills in Purple syllables:

1017. To die - without the Dying:

1018. Who saw no Sunrise cannot say:

1019. My Season's furthest Flower:

1020. Trudging to Eden, looking backward:

1021. Far from Love the Heavenly Father:

1022. I knew that I had gained:

1023. It rises - passes - on our South:

1024. So large my Will:

1025. The Products of my Farm are these:

1026. The Dying need but little, Dear:

1027. My Heart upon a little Plate:

1028. 'Twas my one Glory:

1029. Nor Mountain hinder Me:

1030. That Such have died enable Us:

1031. Fate slew Him, but He did not drop:

1032. Who is the East?:

1033. Said Death to Passion:

1034. His Bill an Augur is:

1035. Bee! I'm expecting you!:

1036. Satisfaction - is the Agent:

1037. Here, where the Daisies fit my Head:

1038. Her little Parasol to lift :

1039. I heard, as if I had no Ear:

1040. Not so the infinite Relations - Below:

1041. Somewhat, to hope for:

1042. Spring comes on the World:

1043. Lest this be Heaven indeed:

1044. A Sickness of this World it most occasions:

1045. Nature rarer uses Yellow:

1046. I've dropped my Brain - My Soul is numb:

1047. The Opening and the Close:

1048. Reportless Subjects, to the Quick:

1049. Pain has but one Acquaintance:

1050. As willing lid o'er Weary Eye:

1051. I cannot meet the Spring - unmoved:

1052. I never saw a Moor:

1053. It was a quiet Way:

1054. Not to discover weakness is:

1055. The Soul should always stand ajar:

1056. There is a Zone whose even Years: