Poems by Emily Dickinson

POEMS

BY

EMILY DICKINSON

Edited by two of her friends MABEL LOOMIS TODD and T. W. HIGGINSON

BOSTON

ROBERTS BROTHERS 1890

BOOK I. - LIFE.

Preface

Prelude

I. Success

II. "Our share of night to bear"

III. Rouge et Noir

IV. Rouge gagne

V. "Glee! the storm is over"

VI. "If I can stop one heart from breaking"

VII. Almost

VIII. "A wounded deer leaps highest"

IX. "The heart asks pleasure first"

X. In a Library

XI. "Much madness is divinest sense"

XII. "I asked no other thing"

XIII. Exclusion

XIV. The Secret

XV. The Lonely House

XVI. "To fight aloud is very brave"

XVII. Dawn

XVIII. The Book of Martyrs

XIX. The Mystery of Pain

XX. "I taste a liquor never brewed"

XXI. A Book

XXII. "I had no time to hate, because"

XXIII. Unreturning

XXIV. "Whether my bark went down at sea"

XXV. "Belshazzar had a letter"

XXVI. "The brain within its groove"

BOOK II.-LOVE.

I. Mine

II. Bequest

III. "Alter? When the hills do"

IV. Suspense

V. Surrender

VI. "If you were coming in the fall"

VII. With a Flower

VIII. Proof

IX. "Have you got a brook in your little heart?"

X. Transplanted

XI. The Outlet

XII. In Vain

XIII. Renunciation

XIV. Love's Baptism

XV. Resurrection

XVI. Apocalypse

XVII. The Wife

XVIII. Apotheosis

BOOK III. NATURE.

I. "New feet within my garden go"

II. May-Flower

III. Why?

IV. "Perhaps you ’d like to buy a flower"

V. "The pedigree of honey"

VI. A Service of Song

VII. “The bee is not afraid of me”

VIII. Summer's Armies

IX. The Grass

X. "A little road not made of man"

XI. Summer Shower

XII. Psalm of the Day

XIII. The Sea of Sunset

XIV. Purple Clover

XV. The Bee

XVI. "Presentiment is not long shadow"

XVII. "As children bid the guest good-night"

XVIII. "Angels in the early morning"

XIX. "So bashful when I spied her"

XX. Two Worlds

XXI. The Mountain

XXII. A Day

XXIII. "The butterfly's assumption-gown"

XXIV. The Wind

XXV. Death and Life

XXVI. "'T was later when the summer went"

XXVII. Indian Summer

XXVIII. Autumn

XXIX. Beclouded

XXX. The Hemlock

XXXI. "There's a certain slant of light"

BOOK IV.—TIME AND ETERNITY

I. "One dignity delays for all"

II. Too late

III. Astra Castra

IV. "Safe in their alabaster chambers"

V. "On this long storm the rainbow rose"

VI. From the Chrysalis

VII. Setting Sail

VIII. "Look back on time with kindly eyes"

IX. "A train went through a burial gate"

X. "I died for beauty, but was scarce"

XI. Troubled about many things

XII. Real

XIII. The Funeral

XIV. "I went to thank her"

XV. "I've seen a dying eye"

XVI. Refuge

XVII. "I never saw a moor"

XVIII. Playmates

XIX. "To know just how he suffered"

XX. "The last night that she lived"

XXI. The First Lesson

XXII. "The bustle in the house"

XXIII. "I reason, earth is short"

XXIV. "Afraid? Of whom am I afraid?"

XXV. Dying

XXVI. "Two swimmers wrestled on a spar"

XXVII. The Chariot

XXVIII. "She went as quiet as the dew"

XXIX. Resurgam

XXX. "Except to heave she is nought"

XXXI. "Death is a dialogue between"

XXXII. "It was too late for man"

XXXIII. Along the Potomac

XXXIV. "The daisy follows soft the Sun"

XXXV. Emancipation

XXXVI. Lost

XXXVII. "If I shouldn't be alive"

XXXVIII. "Sleep is supposed to be"

XXXIX. "I shall know why when time is over"

XL. "I never lost as much but twice"

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