Sumário

The Author 3
Preface for Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890) 4
Preface for Poems by Emily Dickinson – Series 2 (1891) 5
Preface for Poems by Emily Dickinson – Series 3 (1896) 7
Selected works 9
Success is counted sweetest 9
I'm nobody! Who are you? 9
“Hope” is the thing with feathers 9
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 10
There’s a certain Slant of light 11
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! 11
This is my letter to the World 12
I dwell in Possibility 12
I heard a Fly buzz– when I died 12
It was not Death, for I stood up 13
Before I got my eye put out 14
After great pain, a formal feeling comes 14
Because I could not stop for Death 15
My Life has stood– a Loaded Gun 16
Tell all the truth but tell it slant 16
Much Madness is divinest Sense 17
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun 17
I measure every grief I meet 18
I taste a liquor never brewed 19
I died for Beauty - but was scarce 20
I like to see it lap the Miles 20
It's all I have to bring today 21
A fuzzy fellow without feet 21
The heart asks pleasure first 22
Grief is a mouse 22
I have never seen “Volcanoes” 23
Her breast is fit for pearls 23
Death sets a thing significant 24
I dreaded that first Robin 24
If I should die 25
We grow accustomed to the Dark 26
While we were fearing it, it came 26
Why do I love You, Sir? 26
I had no time to hate, because 27
If you were coming in the fall 27
Rouge Gagne 28
Almost! 28
In a library 29
Exclusion 30
The secret 30
The lonely house 31
Dawn 32
The book of martyrs 32
A book 33
Unreturning 33
Mine 33
Bequest 34
I cannot live with You 34
Surrender 35
Transplanted 36
In vain 36
Renunciation 38
Love’s Baptism 39
Summer’s armies 39
The grass 40
Psalm of the day 41
Purple clover 42
The wind 43
Letters 44
To Mabel Loomis Todd 44
To Susan Gilbert 44
To Thomas Wentworth Higginson 45
Emily Dickinson’s Black Cake Recipe 46