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").
That I Did Always Love
549That I did always loveI bring thee ProofThat till I lovedI never lived—Enough—That I shall love alway—I argue theeThat love is life—And life hath..
© Emily Dickinson
Dreams&Mdash;Are Well&Mdash;But Waking's Better
450Dreams—are well—but Waking's better,If One wake at morn—If One wake at Midnight—better—Dreaming—of the Dawn—Sweeter—the Surmising Robins—Never..
© Emily Dickinson
A Transport One Cannot Contain
184A transport one cannot containMay yet a transport be—Though God forbid it lift the lid—Unto its Ecstasy!A Diagram—of Rapture!A sixpence at a..
© Emily Dickinson
Answer July
386Answer July—Where is the Bee—Where is the Blush—Where is the Hay?Ah, said July—Where is the Seed—Where is the Bud—Where is the May—Answer..
© Emily Dickinson
Despair's Advantage Is Achieved
799Despair's advantage is achievedBy suffering—Despair—To be assisted of ReverseOne must Reverse have bore—The Worthiness of Suffering likeThe..
© Emily Dickinson
As Far From Pity, As Complaint
496As far from pity, as complaint—As cool to speech—as stone—As numb to RevelationAs if my Trade were Bone—As far from time—as History—As near..
© Emily Dickinson
I Died For Beauty But Was Scarce
I died for beauty but was scarceAdjusted in the tomb,When one who died for truth was lainIn an adjoining room.He questioned softly why I failed?'For..
© Emily Dickinson
A Great Hope Fell
A great Hope fellYou heard no noiseThe Ruin was withinOh cunning wreck that told no taleAnd let no Witness inThe mind was built for mighty FreightFor..
© Emily Dickinson
Why Do I Love You, Sir?
'Why do I love' You, Sir?Because—The Wind does not require the GrassTo answer—Wherefore when He passShe cannot keep Her place.Because He knows—andDo..
© Emily Dickinson
Best Gains—must Have The Losses' Test
684Best Gains—must have the Losses' Test—To constitute them—Gains—
© Emily Dickinson
It Might Be Lonelier
405It might be lonelierWithout the Loneliness—I'm so accustomed to my Fate—Perhaps the Other—Peace—Would interrupt the Dark—And crowd the little..
© Emily Dickinson
A Tooth Upon Our Peace
459A Tooth upon Our PeaceThe Peace cannot deface—Then Wherefore be the Tooth?To vitalize the Grace—The Heaven hath a Hell—Itself to signalize—And..
© Emily Dickinson
I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed
I taste a liquor never brewed,From tankards scooped in pearl;Not all the vats upon the RhineYield such an alcohol!Inebriate of air am I,And debauchee..
© Emily Dickinson
A Throe Upon The Features
71A throe upon the features—A hurry in the breath—An ecstasy of partingDenominated "Death"—An anguish at the mentionWhich when to patience grown,I've..
© Emily Dickinson
Train
I like to see it lap the miles,And lick the valleys up,And stop to feed itself at tanks;And then, prodigious, stepAround a pile of mountains,And..
© Emily Dickinson
Although I Put Away His Life
366Although I put away his life—An Ornament too grandFor Forehead low as mine, to wear,This might have been the HandThat sowed the flower, he..
© Emily Dickinson
Did Our Best Moment Last
393Did Our Best Moment last—'Twould supersede the Heaven—A few—and they by Risk—procure—So this Sort—are not given—Except as stimulants—inCases of..
© Emily Dickinson
Unable Are The Loved To Die
809Unable are the Loved to dieFor Love is Immortality,Nay, it is Deity—Unable they that love—to dieFor Love reforms VitalityInto Divinity.
© Emily Dickinson
There Is No Frigate Like A Book
There is no frigate like a bookTo take us lands away,Nor any coursers like a pageOf prancing poetry.This traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress..
© Emily Dickinson
An Ignorance A Sunset
552An ignorance a SunsetConfer upon the Eye—Of Territory—Color—Circumference—Decay—Its Amber RevelationExhilirate—Debase—Omnipotence' inspectionOf..
© Emily Dickinson
All These My Banners Be
22All these my banners be.I sow my pageantryIn May—It rises train by train—Then sleeps in state again—My chancel—all the plainToday.To lose—if one..
© Emily Dickinson
How Happy Is The Little Stone
1510How happy is the little StoneThat rambles in the Road alone,And doesn't care about CareersAnd Exigencies never fears—Whose Coat of elemental..
© Emily Dickinson
Besides The Autumn Poets Sing
131Besides the Autumn poets singA few prosaic daysA little this side of the snowAnd that side of the Haze—A few incisive Mornings—A few Ascetic..
© Emily Dickinson
A South Wind&Mdash;Has A Pathos
719A South Wind—has a pathosOf individual Voice—As One detect on LandingsAn Emigrant's address.A Hint of Ports and Peoples—And much not..
© Emily Dickinson
Death Sets A Thing Of Signigicant
Death sets a thing significantThe eye had hurried by,Except a perished creatureEntreat us tenderlyTo ponder little workmanshipsIn crayon or in..
© Emily Dickinson