Chats with Emily
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: