Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by DICKINSON, Emily
Summary: Emily Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the quintessential poets of 19th century America. A very private poet with a very quiet and reclusive life, her poetry was published posthumously and immediately found a wide audience. While she echoed the romantic natural themes of her times, her style was much more free and irregular, causing many to criticize her and editors to "correct" her. In the early 20th century, when poetic style had become much looser, new audiences learned to appreciate her work. Here collected are many of her most contemplative, most rebellious, and "dark" works, expressing her frustrations with the behavioral confines of her times, and the confines of being human and unknowing of eternity. (Summary by Becky Miller)
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I never hear the word “escape"
There is no frigate like a book
Because I could not stop for Death
Of all the sounds despatched abroad
Success is counted sweetest
If I can stop one heart from breaking
To fight aloud is very brave
Pain has an element of blank
I can wade grief
For each ecstatic instant
I meant to have but modest needs
Thought went up my mind to-day, A
Is Heaven a physician?
Poor torn heart, a tattered heart, A
I should have been too glad