Emily Dickinson (1830–86)

14. One Sister have I in our house

187. How many times these low feet staggered

271. A solemn thing — it was — I said

273. He put the Belt around my life

303. The Soul selects her own Society

304. The Day came slow — till Five o’clock

314. Nature — sometimes sears a Sapling

315. He fumbles at your Soul

317. Just so — Jesus — raps

365. Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?

400. A Tongue — to tell Him I am true!

401. What Soft — Cherubic Creatures

402. I pay — in Satin Cash

406. Some — Work for Immortality

407. If What we could — were what we would

418. Not in this World to see his face

434. To love thee Year by Year —

435. Much Madness is divinest Sense

438. Forget! The lady with the Amulet

441. This is my letter to the World

442. God made a little Gentian

443. I tie my Hat — I crease my Shawl

444. It feels a shame to be Alive

445. ’Twas just this time, last year, I died

446. I showed her Heights she never saw

447. Could — I do more — for Thee

448. This was a Poet — It is That

449. I died for Beauty — but was scarce

452. The Malay — took the Pearl

454. It was given to me by the Gods

458. Like eyes that looked on Wastes

462. Why make it doubt — it hurts it so

463. I live with Him — I see His face

465. I heard a Fly buzz — when I died

466. ’Tis little I — could care for Pearls

479. She dealt her pretty words like Blades

483. A Solemn thing within the Soul

486. I was the slightest in the House

488. Myself was formed — a Carpenter

494. Going to Him! Happy letter!

505. I would not paint — a picture

543. I fear a Man of frugal Speech

544. The Martyr Poets — did not tell

599. There is a pain — so utter

601. A still — Volcano Life

603. He found my Being — set it up

605. The Spider holds a Silver Ball

675. Essential Oils — are wrung

613. They shut me up in Prose

617. Don’t put up my Thread and Needle

657. I dwell in Possibility

701. A Thought went up my mind today

704. No matter — now — Sweet

709. Publication — is the Auction

712. Because I could not stop for Death

713. Fame of Myself, to justify

732. She rose to His Requirement — dropt

754. My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —

919. If I can stop one Heart from breaking

985. The Missing All — prevented Me

1039. I heard, as if I had no Ear

1045. Nature rarer uses Yellow

1048. Reportless Subjects, to the Quick

1053. It was a quiet way —

1072. Title divine — is mine!

1075. The Sky is low — the Clouds are mean

1079. The Sun went down — no Man looked on —

1081. Superiority to Fate

1084. At Half past Three, a single Bird

1099. My Cocoon tightens — Colors tease —

1126. Shall I take thee, the Poet said

1129. Tell all the Truth but tell it slant

1138. A Spider sewed at Night

1146. When Etna basks and purrs

1158. Best Witchcraft is Geometry

1212. A word is dead

1212. If my Bark sink

1247. To pile like Thunder to its close

1261. A Word dropped careless on a Page

1275. The Spider as an Artist

1545. The Bible is an antique Volume

1651. A Word made Flesh is seldom

1677. On my volcano grows the Grass

1737. Rearrange a "Wife’s" affection!