Selected Emily Dickinson Poems
I skimmed The Compete Poems of ED -- T. Johnson edition -- and these ones resonated with me. Undoubtedly, you will bond with others if you drink deep from her poetic spring. Most or all of these can be found at the Bartleby.com Dickinson Collection. If you study her further you will resonate with other of her poems which I have not selected. Dickinson herself tells us: "The Soul selects her own Society/ Then shuts the Door --
Poem # First Line
26 It's all I have to bring today
67 Success is counted sweetest
108 Surgeons must be very careful
175 I have never seen "Volcanoes" -
254 Hope is a thing with feathers
255 To die -- just takes a little while -
258 There's a certain Slant of Light
280 I felt a funeral in my Brain
288 I'm Nobody! Who are You!
294 The Doomed -regard the Sunrise
303 The Soul selects her own Society
328 A Bird came down the walk
341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes -
361 What I can do - I will -
404 How many Flowers fail in Wood -
448 This was a Poet -- It is That
449 I died for beauty -- but was scarce
465 I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died --
547 I've seen a dying Eye --
556 The Brain, within its Groove
568 We learned the Whole of Love
632 The Brain -- is wider than the Sky --
650 Pain -- has an Element of Blank --
656 The name-- of it -- is "Autumn" --
712 Because I could not stop for Death --
743 The Birds reported from the South --
757 The Mountains -- grow unnoticed --
793 Grief is a Mouse --
812 A Light exists in Spring
827 The only News I know
917 Love -- is anterior to Life --
937 I felt a Cleaving in my Mind --
967 Pain -- expands the Time --
986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass
1100 The last Night that She lived
1129 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant --
1263 There is no Frigate like a Book
1287 In this short Life
1333 A little Madness in the Spring
1383 Long Year's apart -- can make no
1540 As imperceptibly as Grief
1551 These -- dying then
1553 Bliss is the plaything of the child --
1579 It would not know if it were spurned,
1588 This Me -- that walks and works -- must die,
1685 The butterfly obtains
1696 These are the days that Reindeer love
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