Index:Emily Dickinson Poems - second series (1891).djvu

Title Poems: Second Series Author Emily Dickinson Translator Editor T. W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd Year 1891 Publisher   Roberts Brothers Location Boston Scans djvu Progress  To be proofread Volumes Pages (key to Page Status) – – – – – – – – Title 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234

CONTENTS. RENUNCIATION (fac-similie) Frontispiece. PREFACE Page 3 PRELUDE 17 BOOK I.—LIFE. I. "I'm nobody! Who are you?" 21 II. "I bring an unaccustomed wine" 22 III. "The nearest dream recedes unrealized" 24 IV. "We play at paste" V. "I found the phrase to every thought" 26 VI. Hope 27 VII. The White Heat 28 VIII. Triumphant 29 IX. The Test 30 X. Escape 31 XI. Compensation 32 XII. The Martyrs 33 XIII. A Prayer 34 XIV. "The thought beneath so slight a film" 36 XV. "The soul unto itself" 37 XVI. "Surgeons must be very careful" 38 XVII. The Railway Train 39 XVIII. The Show 40 XIX. "Delight becomes pictorial" 41 XX. "A thought went up my mind to-day" 42 XXI. "Is Heaven a physician?" 43 XXII. The Return 44 XXIII. "A poor torn heart, a tattered heart" 45 XXIV. Too Much 46 XXV. Shipwreck 48 XXVI. "Victory comes late" 49 XXVII. Enough 50 XXVIII. "Experiment to me" 51 XXIX. My Country's Wardrobe 52 XXX. "Faith is a fine invention" 53 XXXI. "Except the heaven had come so near" 54 XXXII. "Portraits are to daily faces" 55 XXXIII. The Duel 56 XXXIV. "A shady friend for torrid days" 57 XXXV. The Goal 58 XXXVI. Sight 60 XXXVII. "Talk with prudence to a beggar" 62 XXXVIII. The Preacher 63 XXXIX. "Good night! which put the candle out?" 64 XL. "When I hoped I feared" 65 XLI. Deed 66 XLII. Time's Lesson 67 XLIII. Remorse 68 XLIV. The Shelter 69 XLV. "Undue significance a starving man attaches" XLVI. "Heart not so heavy as mine" 71 XLVII. "I many times thought peace had come" 73 XLVIII. "Unto my books so good to turn" 74 XLIX. "This merit hath the worst" 75 L. Hunger 76 LI. "I gained it so" 78 LII. "To learn to transport by the pain" 79 LIII. Returning 80 LIV. Prayer 82 LV. "I know that he exists" 83 LVI. Melodies Unheard 84 LVII. Called Back 85 BOOK II.—LOVE. I. Choice 89 II. "I have no life but this" 90 III. "Your riches taught me poverty" 91 IV. The Contract 93 V. The Letter 94 VI. "The way I read a letter's this" 96 VII. "Wild nights! Wild nights!" 97 VIII. At Home 98 IX. Possession 100 X. "A charm invests a face" 101 XI. The Lovers 102 XII. "In lands I never saw, they say" 103 XIII. "The moon is distant from the sea" 104 XIV. "He put the belt around my life " 105 XV. The Lost Jewel 106 XVI. "What if I say I shall not wait? " 107 BOOK III. NATURE. I. Mother Nature 111 II. Out of the Morning 113 III. "At half-past three a single bird " 114 IV. Day's Parlor 115 V. The Sun's Wooing 116 VI. The Robin 117 VII. The Butterfly's Day 118 VIII. The Bluebird 120 IX. April 121 X. The Sleeping Flowers 122 XL. My Rose 124 XII. The Oriole's Secret 125 XIII. The Oriole 126 XIV. In Shadow 128 XV. The Humming-Bird 130 XVI. Secrets 131 XVII. "Who robbed the woods?" 132 XVIII. Two Voyagers 133 XIX. By the Sea 134 XX. Old-Fashioned 136 XXI. A Tempest 138 XXII. The Sea 139 XXIII. In the Garden 140 XXIV. The Snake 142 XXV. The Mushroom 144 XXVI. The Storm 146 XXVII. The Spider 147 XXVIII. "I know a place where summer strives" 148 XXIX. "The one that could repeat the summer day" 149 XXX. The Wind's Visit 150 XXXI. "Nature rarer uses yellow" 152 XXXII. Gossip 153 XXXIII. Simplicity 154 XXXIV. Storm 155 XXXV. The Rat 156 XXXVI. "Frequently the woods are pink" 157 XXXVII. A Thunder- Storm 158 XXXVIII. With Flowers 160 XXXIX. Sunset 161 XL. "She sweeps with many-colored brooms" 162 XLI. "Like mighty footlights burned the red" 163 XLII. Problems 164 XLIII. The Juggler of Day 166 XLIV. My Cricket 167 XLV. "As imperceptibly as grief" 168 XLVI. "It can't be summer,—that got through" 169 XLVII. Summer's Obsequies 170 XLVIII. Fringed Gentian 172 XLIX. November 173 L. The Snow 174 LI. The Blue Jay 176 BOOK IV. — TIME AND ETERNITY. I. "Let down the bars, O Death!" 181 II. "Going to heaven!" 182 III. "At least to pray is left, is left " 184 IV. Epitaph 185 V. "Morns like these we parted" 186 VI. " A death-blow is a life-blow to some 187 VII. "I read my sentence steadily" 188 VIII. "I have not told my garden yet" 189 IX. The Battle-Field 190 X. "The only ghost I ever saw" 191 XI. "Some, too fragile for winter winds" 192 XII. "As by the dead we love to sit" 193 XIII. Memorials 194 XIV. "I went to heaven" 196 XV. "Their height in heaven comforts not" 197 XVI. "There is a shame of nobleness" 198 XVII. Triumph 199 XVIII. "Pompless no life can pass away" 200 XIX. "I noticed people disappeared" 201 XX. Following 202 XXI. "If anybody's friend be dead" 204 XXII. The Journey 206 XXIII. A Country Burial 207 XXIV. Going 208 XXV. "Essential oils are wrung" 210 XXVI. "I lived on dread; to those who know" 211 XXVII. "If I should die" 212 XXVIII. At Length 213 XXIX. Ghosts 214 XXX. Vanished 216 XXXI. Precedence 217 XXXII. Gone 218 XXXIII. Requiem 220 XXXIV. "What inn is this?" 221 XXXV. "It was not death, for I stood up" 222 XXXVI. Till the End 224 XXXVII. Void 225 XXXVIII. "A throe upon the features" 226 XXXIX. Saved 227 XL. "I think just how my shape will rise" 228 XLI. The Forgotten Grave 229 XLII. "Lay this laurel on the one" 230