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Poem: Along the Potomac

Poem 107 Poem 109 Along the Potomac When I was small, a woman died. To-day her only boy Went up from the Potomac, His face all victory, To look at her; how slowly The seasons must have…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series (1891)

Poems by Emily Dickinson First Series Third Series Second Series   My nosegays are for captives; Dim, long-expectant eyes, Fingers denied the plucking, Patient till paradise, To such, if…

Poem: The Chariot

Poem 101 Poem 103 The Chariot Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series (1896)

Poems by Emily Dickinson Second Series Third Series   It's all I have to bring to-day, This, and my heart beside, This, and my heart, and all the fields, And all the meadows wide. Be sure you…

Poems by Emily Dickinson (First Series): Preface

by EmilyDickinson Transcriber's Note Preface The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"--something produced absolutely…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: XI ("Much madness")

by EmilyDickinsonIn a LibraryXIIXI Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'T is the majority In this, as all, prevails. Assent, and you are…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: XXVI ("The brain")

by EmilyDickinsonXXVXXVI The brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve, 'T were easier for you To put the water back When floods have slit the hills, And…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Rouge et Noir

by EmilyDickinsonIIRouge GagneRouge et Noir Rouge et Noir Soul, wilt thou toss again? By just such a hazard Hundreds have lost, indeed, But tens have won an all. Angels' breathless…