Poems (Series 3) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]

CONTENTS.

• PRELUDE v
• PREFACE vii
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  BOOK I. — LIFE.
  • I. Real Riches 13
  • II. Superiority to Fate 14
  • III. Hope 15
  • IV. Forbidden Fruit (1) 16
  • V. Forbidden Fruit (2) 17
  • VI. A Word 18
  • VII. "To venerate the simple days" 19
  • VIII. Life's Trades 20
  • IX. "Drowning is not so pitiful" 21
  • X. "How still the bells in steeples stand" 22
  • XI. "If the foolish call them 'flowers'" 23
  • XII. A Syllable 25

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  • XIII. Parting 26
  • XIV. Aspiration 27
  • XV. The Inevitable 28
  • XVI. A Book 29
  • XVII. "Who has not found the heaven below" 30
  • XVIII. A Portrait 31
  • XIX. I had a Guinea Golden 32
  • XX. Saturday Afternoon 34
  • XXI. "Few get enough—enough is one" 35
  • XXII. "Upon the gallows hung a wretch" 36
  • XXIII. The Lost Thought 37
  • XXIV. Reticence 38
  • XXV. With Flowers 39
  • XXVI. "The farthest thunder that I heard" 40
  • XXVII. "On the bleakness of my lot" 41
  • XXVIII. Contrast 42
  • XXIX. Friends 43
  • XXX. Fire 44
  • XXXI. A Man 45
  • XXXII. Ventures 46
  • XXXIII. Griefs 47
  • XXXIV. "I have a king who does not speak" 49

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  • XXXV. Disenchantment 50
  • XXXVI. Lost Faith 51
  • XXXVII. Lost Joy 52
  • XXXVIII. " I worked for chaff, and earning wheat" 53
  • XXXIX. "Life, and Death, and Giants" 54
  • XL. Alpine Glow 55
  • XLI. Remembrance 56
  • XLII. "To hang our head ostensibly" 57
  • XLIII. The Brain 58
  • XLIV. "The bone that has no marrow" 59
  • XLV. The Past 60
  • XLVI. "To help our bleaker parts" 61
  • XLVII. "What soft, cherubic creatures" 62
  • XLVIII. Desire 63
  • XLIX. Philosophy 64
  • L. Power 65
  • LI. "A modest lot, a fame petite" 66
  • LII. "Is bliss, then, such abyss" 67
  • LIII. Experience 68
  • LIV. Thanksgiving Day 69
  • LV. Childish Griefs 70

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  BOOK II. — LOVE.
  • I. Consecration 73
  • II. Love's Humility 74
  • III. Love 75
  • IV. Satisfied 76
  • V. With a Flower 78
  • VI. Song 79
  • VII. Loyalty 80
  • VIII. "To lose thee, sweeter than to gain" 81
  • IX. "Poor little heart!" 82
  • X. Forgotten 83
  • XI. "I've got an arrow here" 85
  • XII. The Master 86
  • XIII. "Heart, we will forget him!" 87
  • XIV. "Father, I bring thee not myself" 88
  • XV. "We outgrow love, like other things" 89
  • XVI. "Not with a club the heart is broken" 90
  • XVII. Who? 91
  • XVIII. "He touched me, so I live to know" 92
  • XIX. Dreams 93
  • XX. Numen Lumen 94

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  • XXI. Longing 95
  • XXII. Wedded 97
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  BOOK III. — NATURE.
  • I. Nature's Changes 101
  • II. The Tulip 102
  • III. " A light exists in spring" 103
  • IV. The Waking Year 105
  • V. To March 106
  • VI. March 108
  • VII. Dawn 109
  • VIII. " A murmur in the trees to note" 110
  • IX. "Morning is the place for dew" 112
  • X. "To my quick ears the leaves conferred" 113
  • XI. A Rose 114
  • XII. "High from the earth I heard a bird" 115
  • XIII. Cobwebs 116
  • XIV. A Well 117
  • XV. "To make a prairie it takes a clover" 119
  • XVI. The Wind 120
  • XVII. "A dew sufficed itself" 121

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  • XVIII. The Woodpecker 122
  • XIX. A Snake 123
  • XX. "Could I but ride indefinite" 124
  • XXI. The Moon 125
  • XXII. The Bat 127
  • XXIII. The Balloon 128
  • XXIV. Evening 130
  • XXV. Cocoon 131
  • XXVI. Sunset 132
  • XXVII. Aurora 133
  • XXVIII. The Coming of Night 134
  • XXIX. Aftermath 136
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  BOOK IV. — TIME AND ETERNITY.
  • I. "This world is not conclusion" 139
  • II. "We learn in the retreating" 140
  • III. "They say that 'time assuages'" 141
  • IV. "We cover thee, sweet face" 142
  • V. Ending 143
  • VI. "The stimulus, beyond the grave" 144
  • VII. "Given in marriage unto thee" 145

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  • VIII. "That such have died enables us" 146
  • IX. "They won't frown always, — some sweet day" 147
  • X. Immortality 148
  • XI. "The distance that the dead have gone" 149
  • XII. "How dare the robins sing" 150
  • XIII. Death 151
  • XIV. Unwarned 152
  • XV. "Each that we lose takes part of us" 153
  • XVI. "Not any higher stands the grave" 154
  • XVII. Asleep 155
  • XVIII. The Spirit 156
  • XIX. The Monument 157
  • XX. "Bless God, he went as soldiers" 158
  • XXI. "Immortal is an ample word" 159
  • XXII. "Where every bird is bold to go" 160
  • XXIII. "The grave my little cottage is" 161
  • XXIV. "This was in the white of the year" 162
  • XXV. "Sweet hours have perished here" 163
  • XXVI. "Me! Come! My dazzled face" 164
  • XXVII. Invisible 165
  • XXVIII. "I wish I knew that woman's name" 166

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  • XXIX. Trying to Forget 167
  • XXX. "I felt a funeral in my brain" 168
  • XXXI. "I meant to find her when I came" 169
  • XXXII. Waiting 170
  • XXXIII. "A sickness of this world it most occassions" 171
  • XXXIV. "Superfluous were the sun" 172
  • XXXV. "So proud she was to die" 173
  • XXXVI. Farewell 174
  • XXXVII. "The dying need but little, dear" 175
  • XXXVIII. Dead 176
  • XXXIX. "The soul should always stand ajar" 177
  • XL. "Three weeks passed since I had seen her" 178
  • XLI. "I brethed enough to learn the trick" 179
  • XLII. "I wonder if the sepulchre" 180
  • XLIII. Joy in Death 181
  • XLIV. "If I may have it when it's dead" 182
  • XLV. "Before the ice is in the pools" 183
  • XLVI. Dying 184
  • XLVII. "Adrift! A little boat adrift!" 185
  • XLVIII. "There's been a death in the opposite house" 186
  • XLIX. "We never know we go, — when we are going" 188

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  • L. The Soul's Storm 189
  • LI. "Water is taught by thirst" 190
  • LII. Thirst 191
  • LIII. "A clock stopped — not the mantel's" 192
  • LIV. Charlotte Brontë's Grave 193
  • LV. "A toad can die of light!" 195
  • LVI. "Far from love the Heavenly Father" 196
  • LVII. Sleeping 197
  • LVIII. Retrospect 198
  • LIX. Eternity 200

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