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''What Soft—Cherubic Creatures—
These Gentlewomen are—
One would as soon assault a Plush—
Or violate a Star—''
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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...
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''Apparently with no surprise
To any happy flower,
The frost beheads it at its play''
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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....
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''Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.''
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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 ...
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''What soft, cherubic creatures
These gentlewomen are!''
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. What soft, cherubic creatures (l. 1-2). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. ...
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''The sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another day
For an approving God.''
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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....
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''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—''
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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...
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''Rowing in Eden—Ah, the Sea!
Might I but moor—Tonight—
In Thee!''
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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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