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"What Soft—Cherubic Creatures—
These Gentlewomen are—
One would as soon assault a Plush—
Or violate a Star—"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. repr. in The Complete Poems, no. 401, Harvard variorum edition (1955). What Soft Cherubic Creatures, st. 1 (written c. 1862, published 1896). |
"Apparently with no surprise
To any happy flower,
The frost beheads it at its play"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. Apparently with no surprise (l. 1-3).
CP-Di. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown. |
"Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell."
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. repr. in The Complete Poems, no. 1732, Harvard variorum edition (1955). My Life Closed Twice Before its Close (published 1896). |
"What soft, cherubic creatures
These gentlewomen are!"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. What soft, cherubic creatures (l. 1-2). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown. |
"The sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another day
For an approving God."
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. Apparently with no surprise (l. 6-8).
CP-Di. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown. |
"Though I than He—may longer live
He longer must—than I—
For I have but the power to kill,
Without—the power to die—"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun (l. 21-24). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown. |
"Rowing in Eden—Ah, the Sea!
Might I but moor—Tonight—
In Thee!"
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. Wild Nights!—Wild Nights! (L. 10-12). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown. |
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