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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

In Ebon Box, when years have flown

In Ebon Box, when years have flown

169

In Ebon Box, when years have flown
To reverently peer,
Wiping away the velvet dust
Summers have …

301
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

I'm the little Heart's Ease

I'm the little "Heart's Ease"

176

I'm the little "Heart's Ease"!
I don't care for pouting skies!
If the Butterfly delay
Can I, therefor…

325
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

I'm sorry for the Dead—Today

I'm sorry for the Dead—Today

529

I'm sorry for the Dead—Today—
It's such congenial times
Old Neighbors have at fences—
It's time o' yea…

208
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody! Who are you?

I'm nobody! Who are you?

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd banish -- you know!

248
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

I'm wife-I've finished that

I'm "wife"-I've finished that

199

I'm "wife"-I've finished that-
That other stateI'm
Czar-I'm "Woman" nowIt's
safer so-


279
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

I'll send the feather from my Hat!

I'll send the feather from my Hat!

687

I'll send the feather from my Hat!
Who knows-but at the sight of that
My Sovereign will relent?
…

323
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

If your Nerve, deny you

If your Nerve, deny you

292

If your Nerve, deny you-
Go above your Nerve-
He can lean against the Grave,
If he fear to swerve

…

329
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

If What we could-were what we would

If What we could-were what we would

407

If What we could-were what we wouldCriterion-
be small-
It is the Ultimate of Talk-
The Impotence …

369
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

If she had been the Mistletoe

If she had been the Mistletoe

44

If she had been the Mistletoe
And I had been the Rose-
How gay upon your table
My velvet life to close-…

527
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

If this is fading

If this is "fading"

120

If this is "fading"
Oh let me immediately "fade"!
If this is "dying"
Bury me, in such a shroud of red!
If…

257
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

If pain for peace prepares

If pain for peace prepares

63

If pain for peace prepares
Lo, what "Augustan" years
Our feet await!


If springs from winter r…

319
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

If I'm lost-now

If I'm lost-now

256

If I'm lost-now
That I was found-
Shall still my transport be-
That once-on me-those Jasper Gates
Blazed open-s…

252
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

If I should die

If I should die

54

If I should die,
And you should live-
And time should gurgle on-
And morn should beam-
And noon should burn-

326
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

If I may have it, when it's dead

If I may have it, when it's dead

577

If I may have it, when it's dead,
I'll be contented-so-
If just as soon as Breath is out
It shall b…

342
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking,

If I can stop one heart from breaking,

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool …

236
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

If He dissolve—then—there is nothing

If He dissolve—then—there is nothing

236

If He dissolve—then—there is nothing—more—
Eclipse—at Midnight—
It was dark—before—
Sunset—at …

292
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

Ideals are the Fairly Oil

Ideals are the Fairly Oil

983

Ideals are the Fairly Oil
With which we help the Wheel
But when the Vital Axle turns
The Eye rejects the …

339
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

If anybody's friend be dead

If anybody's friend be dead

509

If anybody's friend be dead
It's sharpest of the theme
The thinking how they walked alive-
At such and s…

394
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

I years had been from home,

I years had been from home,

I years had been from home,
And now, before the door,
I dared not open, lest a face
I never saw before


721
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

I would distil a cup

I would distil a cup

16

I would distil a cup,
And bear to all my friends,
Drinking to her no more astir,
By beck, or burn, or moor!

363
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

I was the slightest in the House

I was the slightest in the House

486

I was the slightest in the House-
I took the smallest Room-
At night, my little Lamp, and Book-
And o…

308
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

I went to heaven,--

I went to heaven,--

I went to heaven,-'
T was a small town,
Lit with a ruby,
Lathed with down.
Stiller than the fields
At the full dew, <…

298
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

I tried to think a lonelier Thing

I tried to think a lonelier Thing

532

I tried to think a lonelier Thing
Than any I had seen-
Some Polar Expiation-An Omen in the Bone
Of…

245
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl

I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl

443

I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl—
Life's little duties do—precisely—
As the very least
Were infinite—t…

225