Poetry

Evening By  Emily Dickinson The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one,     Their seam the day upon. The low grass loaded wi…

Sleeping By  Emily Dickinson A long, long sleep, a famous sleep     That makes no show for dawn By stretch of limb or stir of lid, —      An independ…

Farewell By  Emily Dickinson Tie the strings to my life, my Lord,     Then I am ready to go! Just a look at the horses —      Rapid! That will do! Pu…

April By  Emily Dickinson An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the la…

By the Sea By  Emily Dickinson I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me, And frigates i…

The Sea of Sunset By  Emily Dickinson This is the land the sunset washes, These are the banks of the Yellow Sea; Where it rose, or whither it rushes,…

With a Flower By  Emily Dickinson I hide myself within my flower, That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too —  And angels know the …

Storm By  Emily Dickinson It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still. Eclipse was all we could see at the window, An…

Precedence By  Emily Dickinson Wait till the majesty of Death Invests so mean a brow! Almost a powdered footman Might dare to touch it now! Wait till…

Parting By  Emily Dickinson My life closed twice before its close;     It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil     A third event to me, So huge, …

Old-Fashioned By  Emily Dickinson Arcturus is his other name, —  I'd rather call him star! It's so unkind of science To go and interfere! I p…

My Rose By  Emily Dickinson Pigmy seraphs gone astray, Velvet people from Vevay, Belles from some lost summer day, Bees' exclusive coterie. Paris…

Asleep By  Emily Dickinson As far from pity as complaint,     As cool to speech as stone, As numb to revelation     As if my trade were bone. As far …

Problems By  Emily Dickinson Bring me the sunset in a cup, Reckon the morning's flagons up,     And say how many dew; Tell me how far the morning…