Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded, along with Walt Whitman, as one of the two quintessential American poets of the 19th century. Dickinson lived an introverted and hermetic life. Although she wrote, at the last count, 1,789 poems, only a handful of them were published during her lifetime. Some of these published anonymously and some may have been published without her knowledge. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born December 10, 1830, and lived almost all of her life in her family's house in Amherst, which has been preserved as the Emily Dickinson Museum. In 1840, Emily was educated at the nearby Amherst Academy, a former boys' school which had opened to female students just two years earlier. She studied English and classical literature, learning Latin and reading the Aeneid over several years, and was taught in other subjects including religion, history, mathematics, geology, and other things.

as imperceptibly as grief
As imperceptibly as grief
The summer lapsed away,--
Too imperceptible, at last,
To se... [read poem]
among the rocks
Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth,
This autumn morning! How he sets his bones... [read poem]
andrea del sarto
But do not let us quarrel any more,
No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once:
Sit down and a... [read poem]
the bishop orders his tomb at saint praxed's church rome, 15--
Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity!
Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back?
Nephews--so... [read poem]
cavalier tunes: boot and saddle
Boot, saddle, to horse and away!
Rescue my Castle, before the hot day
Brightens to blue fr... [read poem]
caliban upon setebos
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself."
(David, Psalms 50.21)... [read poem]
"childe roland to the dark tower came"
(See Edgar's song in Shakespeare's King Lear.)

My first thought was, he lied in e... [read poem]
cleon
"As certain also of your own poets have said"--
(Acts 17.28)
... [read poem]
confessions
What is he buzzing in my ears?
"Now that I come to die,
Do I view the world as a vale ... [read poem]
count gismond--aix in provence
Christ God who savest man, save most
Of men Count Gismond who saved me!
Count Gauthier... [read poem]
a death in the desert
[Supposed of Pamphylax the Antiochene:
It is a parchment, of my rolls the fifth,
Hath thre... [read poem]
epilogue
At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time,
When you set your fancies free,
Will... [read poem]
an epistle containing the strange medical experience of karshish, the arab physician
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs,
The not-incurious in God's handiwork
(This m... [read poem]
waring
I.

i.

What's become of Waring
Since he gave us all the slip,
Chose... [read poem]
fra lippo lippi
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave!
You need not clap your torches to my face.
Zooks, ... [read poem]
the pied piper of hamelin: a child's story
(Written for, and inscribed to, W. M. the Younger)

I.

Hamelin Town's ... [read poem]
give a rouse
King Charles, and who'll do him right now?
King Charles, and who's ripe for fight now?
Giv... [read poem]
a grammarian's funeral
Let us begin and carry up this corpse,
Singing together.
Leave we the common crofts... [read poem]
home-thoughts, from abroad
Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some ... [read poem]
home-thoughts, from the sea
Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West died away;
Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red... [read poem]
the laboratory
Ancien Régime

Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly,
May gaze thro' the... [read poem]
life in a love
Escape me?
Never--
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the ... [read poem]
the lost leader
Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband to stick in his coat--
Foun... [read poem]
love among the ruins
Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles,
Miles and miles
On the solitary past... [read poem]
love in a life
Room after room,
I hunt the house through
We inhabit together.
Heart, fear nothing, f... [read poem]
cavalier tunes: marching along
Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King,
Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing:
And, pressi... [read poem]
meeting at night
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the star... [read poem]
memorabilia
Ah, did you once see Shelley plain,
And did he stop and speak to you?
And did you spea... [read poem]
my last duchess
FERRARA

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I... [read poem]
my star
All that I know
Of a certain star,
Is, it can throw
(Like the... [read poem]
never the time and the place
Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together!
This path--how soft to ... [read poem]
over the sea our galleys went
Over the sea our galleys went,
With cleaving prows in order brave,
To a speeding wind and ... [read poem]
parting at morning
Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:
And s... [read poem]
prospice
Fear death?--to feel the fog in my throat,
The mist in my face,
When the snows begin... [read poem]
protus
Among these latter busts we count by scores,
Half-emperors and quarter-emperors,
Each with... [read poem]
rabbi ben ezra
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was m... [read poem]
saul
Said Abner, "At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak,
Kiss my cheek, wish me well!" T... [read poem]
a toccata of galuppi's
Oh Galuppi, Baldassaro, this is very sad to find!
I can hardly misconceive you; it would prove ... [read poem]
two in the campagna
I wonder do you feel to-day
As I have felt since, hand in hand,
We sat down on the g... [read poem]
up at a villa--down in the city
Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare,
The house for me, no doubt, were a house ... [read poem]
youth and art
It once might have been, once only:
We lodged in a street together,
You, a sparrow on ... [read poem]
porphyria's lover
The rain set early in to-night,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops ... [read poem]
song
Nay but you, who do not love her,
Is she not pure gold, my mistress?
Holds earth augh... [read poem]
a serenade at the villa
That was I, you heard last night,
When there rose no moon at all,
Nor, to pierce the ... [read poem]
the reticent volcano keeps
The reticent volcano keeps
His never-slumbering plan;
Confided are his projects pink
... [read poem]
no!
No sun--no moon!
No morn--no noon!
No dawn--no dusk--no proper time of day--
No sky--... [read poem]
silence
There is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,
In ... [read poem]
death
It is not death, that sometime in a sigh
This eloquent breath shall take its speechless flight;... [read poem]
the dream of eugene aram
'Twas in the prime of summer-time
An evening calm and cool,
And four-and-twenty happy boys... [read poem]
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