Poems (Dickinson)

Poems
by Emily Dickinson

1890

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CONTENTS

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Preface	iii
Prelude	9

BOOK I. - LIFE.

I.	Success	13
II.	"Our share of night to bear"	14
III.	Rouge et Noir	15
IV.	Rouge gagne	16
V.	"Glee! the storm is over"	17
VI.	"If I can stop one heart from breaking"	18
VII.	Almost	19
VIII.	"A wounded deer leaps highest"	20
IX.	"The heart asks pleasure first"	21
X.	In a Library	22
XI.	"Much madness is divinest sense"	24
XII.	"I asked no other thing"	25

XIII.	Exclusion	26
XIV.	The Secret	27
XV.	The Lonely House	28
XVI.	"To fight aloud is very brave"	30
XVII.	Dawn	31
XVIII.	The Book of Martyrs	32
XIX.	The Mystery of Pain	33
XX.	"I taste a liquor never brewed"	34
XXI.	A Book	35
XXII.	"I had no time to hate, because"	36
XXIII.	Unreturning	37
XXIV.	"Whether my bark went down at sea"	38
XXV.	"Belshazzar had a letter"	39
XXVI.	"The brain within its groove"	40
BOOK II.-LOVE.
I.	Mine	43
II.	Bequest	44
III.	"Alter? When the hills do"	45
IV.	Suspense	46
V.	Surrender	47
VI.	"If you were coming in the fall"	48
VII.	With a Flower	50

VIII.	Proof	51
IX.	“Have you got a brook in your little heart?”	52
X.	Transplanted	53
XI.	The Outlet	54
XII.	In Vain	55
XIII.	Renunciation	58
XIV.	Love's Baptism	60
XV.	Resurrection	62
XVI.	Apocalypse	63
XVII.	The Wife	64
XVIII.	Apotheosis	65
BOOK III. NATURE.
I.	“New feet within my garden go”	69
II.	May-Flower	70
III.	Why?	71
IV.	“Perhaps you ’d like to buy a flower”	72
V.	“The pedigree of honey”	73
VI.	A Service of Song	74
VII.	“The bee is not afraid of me”	75
VIII.	Summer's Armies	76
IX.	The Grass	78

X.	"A little road not made of man"	80
XI.	Summer Shower	81
XII.	Psalm of the Day	82
XIII.	The Sea of Sunset	84
XIV.	Purple Clover	85
XV.	The Bee	87
XVI.	"Presentiment is not long shadow"	88
XVII.	"As children bid the guest good-night"	89
XVIII.	"Angels in the early morning"	90
XIX.	"So bashful when I spied her"	91
XX.	Two Worlds	92
XXI.	The Mountain	93
XXII.	A Day	94
XXIII.	"The butterfly's assumption-gown"	95
XXIV.	The Wind	96
XXV.	Death and Life	98
XXVI.	"'T was later when the summer went"	99
XXVII.	Indian Summer	100
XXVIII.	Autumn	102
XXIX.	Beclouded	103
XXX.	The Hemlock	104
XXXI.	"There's a certain slant of light"	106

[ page ]BOOK IV. Time and Eternity

I.	"One dignity delays for all"	109
II.	Too late	110
III.	Astra Castra	112
IV.	"Safe in their alabaster chambers"	113
V.	"On this long storm the rainbow rose"	114
VI.	From the Chrysalis	115
VII.	Setting Sail	116
VIII.	"Look back on time with kindly eyes"	117
IX.	"A train went through a burial gate"	118
X.	"I died for beauty, but was scarce"	119
XI.	Troubled about many things	120
XII.	Real	121
XIII.	The Funeral	122
XIV.	"I went to thank her"	123
XV.	"I've seen a dying eye"	124
XVI.	Refuge	125
XVII.	"I never saw a moor"	126
XVIII.	Playmates	127
XIX.	"To know just how he suffered"	128
XX.	"The last night that she lived"	130

XXI.	The First Lesson	132
XXII.	"The bustle in the house"	133
XXIII.	"I reason, earth is short"	134
XXIV.	"Afraid? Of whom am I afraid?"	135
XXV.	Dying	136
XXVI.	"Two swimmers wrestled on a spar"	137
XXVII.	The Chariot	138
XXVIII.	"She went as quiet as the dew"	140
XXIX.	Resurgam	141
XXX.	"Except to heave she is nought"	142
XXXI.	"Death is a dialogue between"	143
XXXII.	"It was too late for man"	144
XXXIII.	Along the Potomac	145
XXXIV.	"The daisy follows soft the Sun"	146
XXXV.	Emancipation	147
XXXVI.	Lost	148
XXXVII.	"If I shouldn't be alive"	149
XXXVIII.	"Sleep is supposed to be"	150
XXXIX.	"I shall know why when time is over"	151
XL.	"I never lost as much but twice"	152