We will discuss these poems. They can be found at: AmericanPoems.com. All 1775 of E.D.'s poems are on this site -- and in the original form!
As I entered # 1696, I was alerted to some deer grazing on the bushes in front of my house.
These are the days that Reindeer love
And pranks the Northern star --
This is the Sun's objective,
And Finland of the Year.
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67 Success is counted sweetest
108 Surgeons must be very careful
214 I taste a Liquor. Also see: Post.
215 What is -- Paradise.
254 "Hope" is the thing with feathers
258 There's a certain Slant of light.
328 A Bird came down the Walk. Compare with GH Hopkins' The Windhover.
341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes
441 This is my letter to the World.
448 This was a Poet -- It is That
712 Because I could not stop for Death.
919 If I can stop one Heart from breaking
986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass.
1129 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant --
1263 There is not Frigate like a Book
1333 A little Madness in the Spring
1696 These are the days that Reindeer love.
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