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  Emily Dickinson Poems Known to Have Been Sent to Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Safe in their Alabaster Chambers—, Fr 124

  I’ll tell you how the Sun rose—, Fr 204

  We play at Paste—, Fr 282A

  The nearest Dream recedes—unrealized—, Fr 304

  There came a Day at Summer’s full, Fr 325D

  Of all the Sounds despatched abroad, Fr 334B

  South Winds jostle them—,
Fr 98E

  As if I asked a common Alms, Fr 14

  Of Tribulation—these are They, Fr 328

  Your Riches, taught me, poverty—, Fr 418B

  Some keep the Sabbath going to Church—, Fr 236

  It sifts from Leaden Sieves., Fr 291B&D

  Success—is counted sweetest, Fr 112D

  Before I got my eye put out—, Fr 336B

  I cannot dance opon my Toes—, Fr 381A

  A Bird, came down the Walk—, Fr 359

  Dare you see a Soul at the “White Heat”?, Fr 401

  That after Horror—that ’twas us—, Fr 243B

  The Soul unto itself, Fr 579A

  Best Gains—must have the Losses’ test—, Fr 499

  Not “Revelation”—’tis—that waits, Fr 500

  The Robin is the One, Fr 501

  I did not deem that Planétary forces, Fr 568A

  The only News I know, Fr 820B

  Further in Summer than the Birds, Fr 895D

  Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple, Fr 321

  Except the smaller size, Fr 606

  A Death blow is a Life blow to Some, Fr 966

  Paradise is of the Option—, Fr 1125A

  A narrow Fellow in the Grass, Fr 1096

  They say that “Time assuages”—, Fr 861B

  Ample make this Bed—, Fr 804C

  To undertake is to achieve, Fr 991

  As imperceptibly as Grief, Fr 935D

  The Luxury to apprehend, Fr 819

  Trust adjusts her “Peradventure”—, Fr 1177

  When I hoped I feared—, Fr 594

  The Days that we can spare, Fr 1229B

  Step lightly on this narrow Spot—, Fr 1227

  Remembrance has a Rear and Front., Fr 1234

  Immortal is an ample word, Fr 1223B

  To disappear enhances—The Man that runs away, Fr 1239C

  He preached opon “Breadth” till it argued him narrow—, Fr 1266

  Our own Possessions though our own, Fr 1267

  The Show is not the Show, Fr 1270C

  The Sea said “Come” to the Brook—, Fr 1275

  Not any higher stands the Grave, Fr 1214

  Longing is like the Seed, Fr 1298A

  Dominion lasts until obtained—, Fr 1299

  The Wind begun to rock the Grass, Fr 796D

  Who were “the Father and the Son”, Fr 1280

  Because that you are going, Fr 1314

  To his simplicity, Fr 1387

  A Wind that woke a lone Delight, Fr 1216D

  Presuming on that lone result, Fr 1242B

  The mushroom—, is the Elf of Plants—Fr 1350E

  Of Life to own—, Fr 1327

  Pink—small—and punctual—, Fr 1350D

  The last of Summer is Delight—, Fr 1380

  The Heart is the Capital of the Mind., Fr 1381C

  The Mind lives on the Heart, Fr 1384

  The Rat is the concisest Tenant., Fr 1369

  “Faithful to the end” amended, Fr 1386

  Take all away—, Fr 1390

  I sued the News—yet feared—the News, Fr 1391

  The things we thought that we should do, Fr 1279

  The long sigh of the Frog, Fr 1394A

  The Treason of an accent, Fr 1388

  Of their peculiar light, Fr 1396A

  How know it from a Summer’s Day?, Fr 1412, to MCH

  The Flake the Wind exasperate, Fr 1410, to MCH

  Summer laid her supple Glove, Fr 1411E

  After all Birds have been investigated and laid aside—, Fr 1383

  To wane without disparagement, Fr 1416B

  Hope is a strange invention, Fr 1424B, to MCH

  They might not need me, yet they might—, Fr 1425A, to MCH

  Whose Pink career may have a close, Fr 1427

  Lay this Laurel on the One, Fr 1428C

  It sounded as if the streets were running, Fr 1454C

  She laid her docile Crescent down, Fr 1453

  I have no Life but this—, Fr 1432C

  Perhaps she does not go so far, Fr 1455C

  How brittle are the Piers, Fr 1459

  We knew not that we were to live—, Fr 1481A

  One thing of it we borrow, Fr 1516B

  The Face in Evanescence lain, Fr 1521

  A Dimple in the Tomb, Fr 1522

  The Savior must have been, Fr 1538

  A Route of Evanescence, Fr 1489E

  Mine Enemy is growing old—, Fr 1539

  My country need not change her gown, Fr 1540

  “Go traveling with us”!, Fr 1561

  All things swept sole away, Fr 1548

  How happy is the little Stone, Fr 1570

  Come show thy Durham Breast to her who loves thee best, Fr 1572B

  Obtaining but our own extent, Fr 1573

  The Moon upon her fluent route, Fr 1574B

  Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light, Fr 1624

  No Brigadier throughout the Year, Fr 1596

  Who “meddled” with the costly Hearts, Fr 1626B

  Not knowing when Herself may come, Fr 1647C

  The immortality she gave, Fr 1684

  Of Glory not a Beam is left, Fr 1685

  Emily Dickinson Poems Cited

  A Bird, came down the Walk—, Fr 359

  A Death blow is a Life blow to Some, Fr 966

  A Light exists in Spring, Fr 962

  A little East of Jordan, Fr 145

  A loss of something ever felt I—, Fr 1072

  A narrow Fellow in the Grass, Fr 1096, 1096

  A A Pit—but Heaven over it—, Fr 508

  A precious—mouldering pleasure—’tis—, Fr 569

  A Route of Evanescence, Fr 1489, 1489E, 1489F

  A Slash of Blue! A sweep of Gray!, Fr 233

  A Wind that woke a lone Delight, Fr 1216D

  A wounded Deer—leaps highest—, Fr 181

  After all Birds have been investigated and laid aside—, Fr 1383

  After great pain, a formal feeling comes—, Fr 372

  Ample make this Bed—, Fr 804, 804C

  An altered look about the hills—, Fr 90

  Apparently with no surprise, Fr 1668

  As if I asked a common Alms, Fr 14

  As imperceptibly as Grief, Fr 935D

  At Half past Three, Fr 1099

  Because I could not stop for Death—, Fr 479

  Because that you are going, Fr 1314

  Before I got my eye put out—, Fr 336B

  Bereavement in their death to feel, Fr 756

  Best Gains—must have the Losses’ test—, Fr 499

  Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple, Fr 321, 321B

  Bliss is the sceptre of the child, Fr 1583

  Candor—my tepid friend—, Fr 1608

  Circumference thou Bride of Awe—, Fr 1636B

  Color—Caste—Denomination—, Fr 836

  Come show thy Durham Breast to her who loves thee best, Fr 1572B

  Crisis is a Hair, Fr 1067

  Dare you see a Soul at the “White Heat”?, Fr 401

  Dear March—Come in—, Fr 1320

  Dominion lasts until obtained—, Fr 1299

  Doom is the House without the Door—, Fr 710

  Each Life converges to some Centre—, Fr 724

  Essential Oils—are wrung—, Fr 772

  “Faithful to the end” amended, Fr 1386

  Fame is a bee., Fr 1788

  Fame is a fickle food, Fr 1702

  Fame’s Boys and Girls, who never die, Fr 892

  Flowers—well, if anybody, Fr 95A

  Further in Summer than the Birds, Fr 895, 895D

  Glee—The great storm is over—, Fr 685

  “Go traveling with us”!, Fr 1561

  God is a distant—stately Lover—, Fr 615

  Going to him! Happy letter!, Fr 277

  Growth of Man—like Growth of Nature—, Fr 790

  He fought like those Who’ve nought to lose—, Fr 480

  He fumbles at your Soul, Fr 477A

  He preached
opon “Breadth” till it argued him narrow—, Fr 1266

  He put the Belt around my life—, Fr 330

  “Hope” is the thing with feathers—, Fr 314

  How brittle are the Piers, Fr 1459

  How happy is the little Stone, Fr 1570

  I can wade Grief—, Fr 312

  I cannot dance opon my Toes—, Fr 381A

  I cannot live with You—, Fr 706

  I died for Beauty—but was scarce, Fr 448

  I dwell in Possibility—, Fr 466

  I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—, Fr 867

  I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, Fr 340

  I had been hungry, all the Years—, Fr 439

  I had some things that I called mine—, Fr 101

  I have no Life but this—, Fr 1432C

  I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—, Fr 591

  I like to see it lap the Miles—, Fr 383

  I measure every Grief I meet, Fr 550

  I never saw a Moor., Fr 800

  I reason, Earth is short—, Fr 403

  I reckon—When I count at all—, Fr 533

  I saw no Way—The Heavens were stitched—, Fr 633

  I shall know why—when Time is over—, Fr 215

  I sued the News—yet feared—the News, Fr 1391

  I taste a liquor never brewed—, Fr 207 and Fr 207 A

  If your Nerve, deny you—, Fr 329

  I’ll tell you how the Sun rose—, Fr 204

  I’m ceded—I’ve stopped being Their’s—, Fr 353

  I’m Nobody! Who are you?, Fr 260

  I’m sorry for the Dead—Today—, Fr 582

  It dont sound so terrible—quite—as it did—, Fr 384

  It feels a shame to be Alive—, Fr 524

  It sifts from Leaden Sieves—, Fr 291B, 291D, 291E

  It sounded as if the streets were running, Fr 1454C

  It was not Death, for I stood up, Fr 355

  I’ve seen a Dying Eye, Fr 648

  Lay this Laurel on the One, Fr 1428C

  Let Us play Yesterday—, Fr 754

  Longing is like the Seed, Fr 1298A

  Many a phrase has the English language—, Fr 333

  Me—Come! My dazzled face, Fr 389

  Mine Enemy is growing old—, Fr 1539B

  Much Madness is divinest Sense—, Fr 620

  My country need not change her gown, Fr 1540

  My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—, Fr 764

  My Portion is Defeat—today—, Fr 704

  Nature—sometimes sears a Sapling—, Fr 457

  No Brigadier throughout the Year, Fr 1596

 

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