Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the great American poets of the 19th century. She wrote over 1700 poems, only a handful of them were published during her lifetime.
Living a life of simplicity and seclusion, she yet wrote poetry of great power, questioning the nature of immortality and death, with at times an almost mantric quality. Within short, compact phrases she expresses far-reaching ideas; amidst paradox and uncertainty her poetry has an undeniable capacity to move and provoke.
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
– Emily Dickinson
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Poems by Emily Dickinson
- Because I could not Stop for Death
- Death Sets a Thing Significant
- Each Ecstatic Instant
- I felt a Funeral in the Brain
- I Cannot Live With You
- I Died for Beauty
- I Measure Every Grief
- I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed
- It was Not Death
- T’is so Much Joy
- Success is Counted Sweetest
- Much Madness
- No Time to Hate
- Hungry all These Years
- I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died
- God Gave A Loaf To Every Bird
- I’m Nobody
- Joy in Death
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