Table of Contents
1 Awake ye muses nine...
2 Sic transit gloria mundi
3 On this wondrous sea
7 Summer for thee, grant I may be
9 If recollecting were forgetting
11 Nobody knows this little Rose
12 I had a guinea golden
32 The morns are meeker than they were
43 Through lane it lay — through bramble
53 If I should cease to bring a Rose
64 Heart! We will forget him!
106 Glowing is her Bonnet
112 Success is counted sweetest
113 The Bee is not afraid of me
116 Our share of night to bear
117 “Arcturus” is his other name
123 Besides the Autumn poets sing
128 Going to Heaven!
144 I never hear the word “escape”
147 A science — so the Savants say
148 Will there really be a “Morning”?
171 A fuzzy fellow, without feet
176 If I could bribe them by a Rose
181 A Wounded Deer — leaps highest
195 Victory comes late
204 I’ll tell you how the Sun rose
205 Come slowly — Eden!
207 I taste a liquor never brewed
209 I lost a World — the other day!
210 If I shouldn’t be alive
213 The Skies can’t keep their secret!
214 Poor little Heart!
215 I shall know why — when Time is over
221 He was weak, and I was strong — then
222 Dying! Dying in the night!
236 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
241 What is — “Paradise”
253 I’ve nothing else — to bring, You know
258 I Came to buy a smile — today
260 I’m Nobody! Who are you?
265 It can’t be “Summer”!
268 Why — do they shut Me out of Heaven?
269 Wild Nights — Wild Nights!
270 I shall keep singing!
271 Over the fence
274 Again — his voice is at the door
277 Going to Him! Happy letter!
291 It sifts from Leaden Sieves
295 Savior! I’ve no one else to tell
303 Alone, I cannot be
305 What if I say I shall not wait!
314 “Hope” is the thing with feathers
315 To die — takes just a little while
320 There’s a certain Slant of light
322 Good Night! Which put the Candle out?
330 He put the Belt around my life
331 The only Ghost I ever saw
332 Doubt Me! My Dim Companion!
333 Many a phrase has the English language
344 ’Twas just this time, last year, I died
353 I’m ceded — I’ ve stopped being Theirs
356 If you were coming in the Fall
359 A Bird came down the Walk
365 I know that He exists
366 He strained my faith
368 I envy Seas, whereon He rides
381 I cannot dance upon my Toes
382 Good Morning — Midnight
383 I like to see it lap the Miles
387 The Moon is distant from the Sea
390 Do People moulder equally
391 Knows how to forget!
396 I took one Draught of Life
408 Like Some Old fashioned Miracle
409 The Soul selects her own Society
411 Mine — by the Right of the White Election!
412 She lay as if at play
425 ’Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch
426 I gave myself to Him
436 I found the words to every thought
437 I never felt at Home — Below
439 I had been hungry, all the Years
440 I Years had been from Home
446 This was a Poet — It is That
448 I died for Beauty — but was scarce
449 Dreams — are well — but Waking’s better
457 Nature — sometimes sears a Sapling
459 “Why do I love” You, Sir?
466 I dwell in Possibility
477 He fumbles at your Soul
479 Because I could not stop for Death
489 My Faith is larger than the Hills
494 The Wind didn’t come from the Orchard — today
495 The Day undressed — Herself
497 The Beggar Lad — dies early
519 This is my letter to the World
524 It feels a shame to be Alive
531 We learned the Whole of Love
533 I reckon — when I count at all
550 I measure every Grief I meet
555 A House upon the Height
558 A Visitor in Marl
559 Through the Dark Sod — as Education
562 ’Twas Love — not me
575 I’m saying every day
576 The difference between Despair
577 I went to Heaven
579 The Soul unto itself
583 You cannot put a Fire out
592 The Soul that hath a Guest
596 Ourselves were wed one summer — dear
598 The Brain — is wider than the Sky
599 We do not play on Graves
605 I am alive — I guess
613 The Day that I was crowned
615 God is a distant — stately Lover
620 Much Madness is divinest Sense
628 ’Tis customary as we part
642 There is a flower that Bees prefer
643 A Secret told
649 No Rack can torture me
652 That I did always love
660 I took my Power in my Hand
671 The Sweetest Heresy received
674 I could not prove the Years had feet
686 It makes no difference abroad
689 It was too late for Man
701 The Child’s faith is new
1320 Dear March — Come in
1349 Not with a Club, the Heart is broken
1355 His Mansion in the Pool
1593 He ate and drank the precious Words
1779 To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee