Emily's

 

Emily, clover & bees

 

Emily Dickinson: "I Died for Beauty"

I died for Beauty, but was scarce

adjusted in the tomb,

when one who died for Truth was lain

in an adjoining room.

He questioned softly why I failed?

"For Beauty", I replied.

"And I for Truth, - the two are one;

we brethren are", he said.

And so, as kinsmen met a night,

we talked between the rooms,

until the moss has reached our lips,

and covered up our names.

Emily Dickinson

 

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886): 'Im nobody! Who are you?'

 

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!

They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!

How public, like a frog

To tell your name the livelong day

To an admiring bog!

101 Great American Poems

Dover Thrift Editions 1998

Edited by The American Poetry & Literacy Project (AP&L Project)

. . .

 

Me! Come! My dazzled face

In such a shining place!

Me! Hear! My foreign ear

The sounds of welcome near!

The saints shall meet

Our bashful feet.

My holiday shall be 

That they remember me;

My paradise, the fame

That  they pronounce my name.

 

EMILY Dickinson - SELECTED POEMS

A Tor Book, First Edition February 1993

Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc -  New York

Emily Dickinson

My river runs to thee :
Blue sea, wilt welcome me?

My river waits reply.
Oh sea, look graciously !

I'll fetch thee brooks
From spotted nooks, - 

Say, sea,
Take me! 



The Outlet
Collected Poems of EMILY DICKINSON