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Poems by Emily Dickinson: At Home

by EmilyDickinsonVIIPossessionAt Home At Home The night was wide, and furnished scant With but a single star, That often as a cloud it met Blew out itself for fear. The wind pursued the…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Possession

by EmilyDickinsonAt HomeXPossession Possession Did the harebell loose her girdle To the lover bee, Would the bee the harebell hallow Much as formerly? Did the paradise, persuaded, Yield…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Oriole

by EmilyDickinsonThe Oriole's SecretIn ShadowThe Oriole The Oriole One of the ones that Midas touched, Who failed to touch us all, Was that confiding prodigal, The blissful oriole. So…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: In Shadow

by EmilyDickinsonThe OrioleThe Humming-BirdIn Shadow In Shadow I dreaded that first robin so, But he is mastered now, And I 'm accustomed to him grown, — He hurts a little, though. I…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Secrets

by EmilyDickinsonThe Humming-BirdXVIISecrets Secrets The skies can't keep their secret! They tell it to the hills — The hills just tell the orchards — And they the daffodils! A bird, by…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: By the Sea

by EmilyDickinsonTwo VoyagersOld-FashionedBy the Sea By the Sea I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me, And frigates in…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: A Tempest

by EmilyDickinsonOld-FashionedThe SeaA Tempest A Tempest An awful tempest mashed the air, The clouds were gaunt and few; A black, as of a spectre's cloak, Hid heaven and earth from view…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Sea

by EmilyDickinsonA TempestIn the GardenThe Sea The Sea An everywhere of silver, With ropes of sand To keep it from effacing The track called land.

Poems by Emily Dickinson: In the Garden

by EmilyDickinsonThe SeaThe SnakeIn the Garden In the Garden A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw. And then he drank a…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Snake

by EmilyDickinsonIn the GardenThe MushroomThe Snake The Snake A narrow fellow in the grass Occasionally rides; You may have met him, — did you not, His notice sudden is. The grass…