Category: Poetry

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886; Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 [Editor]; Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932 [Editor]· 3 chapters· 8,548 words

THE verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"--something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer's own mind. Such verse must inevitably forfeit wh...

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2. Chapter 2

Some rainbow coming from the fair! Some vision of the world Cashmere I confidently see! Or else a peacock's purple train, Feather by feather, on the plain Fritters itself away!

1. Chapter 1

THE verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"--something produced absolutely without the thought of publicat...

3. Chapter 3