Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson (10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts)

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Hope Is The Thing With Feather... 'Hope' is the thing with ...
"Why Do I Love" You, Sir? 480 "Why do I love" You, ...
Because I Could Not Stop For D... Because I could not stop ...
"Nature" Is What We See 668 "Nature" is what we ...
"Faith" Is A Fine Invention 185 "Faith" is a fine ...
A Bird Came Down A bird came down the walk: He did not know ...
"Heaven"—Is What I Canno...

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence.

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''Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.''
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. Letter, July 1862, to Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The Letters of Emily Dickinson, vol. 2 (1958). Higginson...

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

'Hope' is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops—at all—

And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—
And sore must be the storm—
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm—

I've heard it in the chillest land—
And on the strangest Sea—
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb—of Me.

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