Emily Dickinson
1830–1886
The famous hermit from Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson published only eight poems during her lifetime. Today her nearly 2,000 succinct, profound meditations on life and death, nature, love, and art make her one of the most original and important poets in English.
Poems
- “Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314)
- How many times these low feet staggered (238)
- I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, (340)
- I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - (591)
- It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (291)
- It was not Death, for I stood up, (355)
- Much Madness is divinest Sense - (620)
- A narrow fellow in the grass (1096)
- Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (124)
- There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House
