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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts)
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Emily Dickinson grew up in a prominent and prosperous household in Amherst, Massachusetts. Along with her younger siter Lavinia and older brother Aust .. more >>
1472 poems of Emily Dickinson
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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 (wr...
 
  ''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....
 
  ''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 ...
 
  ''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. ...
 
  ''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....
 
  ''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. Johns...
 
  ''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, e...
 

 
 
 
 
 
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