Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Summer For Thee, Grant I May Be
31Summer for thee, grant I may beWhen Summer days are flown!Thy music still, when WhipporwillAnd Oriole—are done!For thee to bloom, I'll skip the..
© Emily Dickinson
Before He Comes We Weigh The Time!
834Before He comes we weigh the Time!'Tis Heavy and 'tis Light.When He depart, an EmptinessIs the prevailing Freight.
© Emily Dickinson
Bereaved Of All, I Went Abroad
784Bereaved of all, I went abroad—No less bereaved was IUpon a New Peninsula—The Grave preceded me—Obtained my Lodgings, ere myself—And when I sought..
© Emily Dickinson
Nobody Knows This Little Rose
35Nobody knows this little Rose—It might a pilgrim beDid I not take it from the waysAnd lift it up to thee.Only a Bee will miss it—Only a..
© Emily Dickinson
As Children Bid The Guest "Good Night"
133As Children bid the Guest "Good Night"And then reluctant turn—My flowers raise their pretty lips—Then put their nightgowns on.As children caper..
© Emily Dickinson
Bloom Upon The Mountain—stated
667Bloom upon the Mountain—stated—Blameless of a Name—Efflorescence of a Sunset—Reproduced—the same—Seed, had I, my Purple SowingShould endow the..
© Emily Dickinson
Bound&Mdash;A Trouble
269Bound—a trouble—And lives can bear it!Limit—how deep a bleeding go!So—many—drops—of vital scarlet—Deal with the soulAs with Algebra!Tell it the..
© Emily Dickinson
Between My Country—and The Others
Between My Country—and the Others—There is a Sea—But Flowers—negotiate between us—As Ministry.
© Emily Dickinson
Forever At His Side To Walk
246Forever at His side to walk—The smaller of the two!Brain of His Brain—Blood of His Blood—Two lives—One Being—now—Forever of His fate to taste—If..
© Emily Dickinson
Best Things Dwell Out Of Sight
998Best Things dwell out of SightThe Pearl—the Just—Our Thought.Most shun the Public AirLegitimate, and Rare—The Capsule of the WindThe Capsule of..
© Emily Dickinson
It Is An Honorable Thought
It is an honorable thought,And makes one lift one's hat,As one encountered gentlefolkUpon a daily street,That we've immortal place,Though pyramids..
© Emily Dickinson
As The Starved Maelstrom Laps The Navies
872As the Starved Maelstrom laps the NaviesAs the Vulture teasedForces the Broods in lonely ValleysAs the Tiger easedBy but a Crumb of Blood, fasts..
© Emily Dickinson
Color—caste—denomination
970Color—Caste—Denomination—These—are Time's Affair—Death's diviner ClassifyingDoes not know they are—As in sleep—All Hue forgotten—Tenets—put..
© Emily Dickinson
Drama's Vitallest Expression Is The Common Day
741Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common DayThat arise and set about Us—Other TragedyPerish in the Recitation—This—the best enactWhen the..
© Emily Dickinson
Forever—it Composed Of Nows
624Forever—it composed of Nows—'Tis not a different time—Except for Infiniteness—And Latitude of Home—From this—experienced Here—Remove the Dates—to..
© Emily Dickinson
Empty My Heart, Of Thee
587Empty my Heart, of Thee—Its single Artery—Begin, and leave Thee out—Simply Extinction's Date—Much Billow hath the Sea—One Baltic—They—Subtract..
© Emily Dickinson
Banish Air From Air&Mdash
854Banish Air from Air—Divide Light if you dare—They'll meetWhile Cubes in a DropOr Pellets of ShapeFitFilms cannot annulOdors return wholeForce..
© Emily Dickinson
It Feels A Shame To Be Alive
444It feels a shame to be Alive—When Men so brave—are dead—One envies the Distinguished Dust—Permitted—such a Head—The Stone—that tells defending..
© Emily Dickinson
As Frost Is Best Conceived
951As Frost is best conceivedBy force of its Result—Affliction is inferredBy subsequent effect—If when the sun reveal,The Garden keep the Gash—If as..
© Emily Dickinson
Superfluous Were The Sun
999Superfluous were the SunWhen Excellence be deadHe were superfluous every DayFor every Day be saidThat syllable whose FaithJust saves it from..
© Emily Dickinson
Could I But Ride Indefinite
661Could I but ride indefiniteAs doth the Meadow BeeAnd visit only where I likedAnd No one visit meAnd flirt all Day with ButtercupsAnd marry whom I..
© Emily Dickinson
Doom Is The House Without The Door
475Doom is the House without the Door—'Tis entered from the Sun—And then the Ladder's thrown away,Because Escape—is done—'Tis varied by the DreamOf..
© Emily Dickinson
How Happy I Was If I Could Forget
898How happy I was if I could forgetTo remember how sad I amWould be an easy adversityBut the recollecting of BloomKeeps making November..
© Emily Dickinson
Do People Moulder Equally
432Do People moulder equally,They bury, in the Grave?I do believe a SpeciesAs positively liveAs I, who testify itDeny that I—am dead—And fill my..
© Emily Dickinson
All Circumstances Are The Frame
820All Circumstances are the FrameIn which His Face is set—All Latitudes exist for HisSufficient Continent—The Light His Action, and the DarkThe..
© Emily Dickinson