The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson/Part 1

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PART ONE

LIFE


Chapters (not listed in original)

  2. This is my letter to the world
  4. Success is counted sweetest
  5. Our share of night to bear
  6. Soul, wilt thou toss again?
  7. 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy!
  8. Glee! the great storm is over!
  9. If I can stop one heart from breaking
  10. Within my reach!
  11. A wounded deer leaps highest
  12. The heart asks pleasure first
  13. A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis
  14. Much madness is divinest sense
  15. I asked no other thing
  16. The soul selects her own society
  17. Some things that fly there be
  18. I know some lonely houses off the road
  19. To fight aloud is very brave
  20. When night is almost done
  21. Read, sweet, how others strove
  22. Pain has an element of blank
  23. I taste a liquor never brewed
  24. He ate and drank the precious words
  25. I had no time to hate, because
  26. 'Twas such a little, little boat
  27. Whether my bark went down at sea
  28. Belshazzar had a letter
  29. The brain within its groove
  30. I'm nobody! Who are you?
  31. I bring an unaccustomed wine
  32. The nearest dream recedes, unrealized
  33. We play at paste
  34. I found the phrase to every thought
  35. Hope is the thing with feathers
  36. Dare you see a soul at the white heat?
  37. Who never lost, are unprepared
  38. I can wade grief
  39. I never hear the word "escape"
  40. For each ecstatic instant
  41. Through the straight pass of suffering
  42. I meant to have but modest needs
  43. The thought beneath so slight a film
  44. The soul unto itself
  45. Surgeons must be very careful
  46. I like to see it lap the miles
  47. The show is not the show
  48. Delight becomes pictorial
  49. A thought went up my mind to-day
  50. Is Heaven a physician?
  51. Though I get home how late, how late!
  52. A poor torn heart, a tattered heart
  53. I should have been too glad, I see
  54. It tossed and tossed
  55. Victory comes late
  56. God gave a loaf to every bird
  57. Experiment to me
  58. My country need not change her gown
  59. Faith is a fine invention
  60. Except the heaven had come so near
  61. Portraits are to daily faces
  62. I took my power in my hand
  63. A shady friend for torrid days
  64. Each life converges to some centre
  65. Before I got my eye put out
  66. Talk with prudence to a beggar
  67. He preached upon "breadth" till it argued him narrow
  68. Good night! which put the candle out?
  69. When I hoped I feared
  70. A deed knocks first at thought
  71. Mine enemy is growing old
  72. Remorse is memory awake
  73. The body grows outside
  74. Undue significance a starving man attaches
  75. Heart not so heavy as mine
  76. I many times thought peace had come
  77. Unto my books so good to turn
  78. This merit hath the worst
  79. I had been hungry all the years
  80. I gained it so
  81. To learn the transport by the pain
  82. I years had been from home
  83. Prayer is the little implement
  84. I know that he exists
  85. Musicians wrestle everywhere
  86. Just lost when I was saved!
  87. 'Tis little I could care for pearls
  88. Superiority to fate
  89. Hope is a subtle glutton
  90. Forbidden fruit a flavor has
  91. Heaven is what I cannot reach!
  92. A word is dead
  93. To venerate the simple days
  94. It's such a little thing to weep
  95. Drowning is not so pitiful
  96. How still the bells in steeples stand
  97. If the foolish call them "flowers"
  98. Could mortal lip divine
  99. My life closed twice before its close
  100. We never know how high we are
  101. While I was fearing it, it came
  102. There is no frigate like a book
  103. Who has not found the heaven below
  104. A face devoid of love or grace
  105. I had a guinea golden
  106. From all the jails the boys and girls
  107. Few get enough,—enough is one
  108. Upon the gallows hung a wretch
  109. I felt a cleavage in my mind
  110. The reticent volcano keeps
  111. If recollecting were forgetting
  112. The farthest thunder that I heard
  113. On the bleakness of my lot
  114. A door just opened on a street
  115. Are friends delight or pain?
  116. Ashes denote that fire was
  117. Fate slew him, but he did not drop
  118. Finite to fail, but infinite to venture
  119. I measure every grief I meet
  120. I have a king who does not speak
  121. It dropped so low in my regard
  122. To lose one's faith surpasses
  123. I had a daily bliss
  124. I worked for chaff, and earning wheat
  125. Life, and Death, and Giants
  126. Our lives are Swiss
  127. Remembrance has a rear and front
  128. To hang our head ostensibly
  129. The brain is wider than the sky
  130. The bone that has no marrow
  131. The past is such a curious creature
  132. To help our bleaker parts
  133. What soft, cherubic creatures
  134. Who never wanted,—maddest joy
  135. It might be easier
  136. You cannot put a fire out
  137. A modest lot, a fame petite
  138. Is bliss, then, such abyss
  139. I stepped from plank to plank
  140. One day is there of the series
  141. Softened by Time's consummate plush
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