No Rack can torture me—, Fr 649
Nobody knows this little Rose;, Fr 11A
Not knowing when Herself may come, Fr 1647C
Not “Revelation”—’tis—that waits, Fr 500
Obtaining but our own extent, Fr 1573
Of all the Sounds despatched abroad, Fr 334B
Of Bronze—and Blaze—, Fr 319
Of Glory not a Beam is left, Fr 1685
Of nearness to her sundered Things, Fr 337
Of Paradise’ existence, Fr 1421
Of Tribulation—these are They, Fr 328
One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—, Fr 407
One Sister have I in our house—, Fr 5A
Pain—has an Element of Blank—, Fr 760
Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light, Fr 1624
Perception of an Object costs, Fr 1103
Perhaps she does not go so far, Fr 1455C
Perhaps you think me stooping!, Fr 273A
Presentiment—is that long shadow—on the Lawn—, Fr 487
Publication—is the Auction, Fr 788
Remembrance has a Rear and Front., Fr 1234
Remorse—is Memory—awake—, Fr 781
Safe Despair it is that raves—, Fr 1196
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers—, Fr 124, 124A
She dealt her pretty words like Blades—, Fr 458
She died,—this was the way she died., Fr 154
She laid her docile Crescent down, 1453C
“Sic transit gloria mundi,” Fr 2B
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church—, Fr 236
Some things that fly there be—, Fr 68
Some—Work for Immortality—, Fr 536
Soul, Wilt thou toss again?, Fr 89
South Winds jostle them—, Fr 98E
Step lightly on this narrow Spot—, Fr 1227
Success—is counted sweetest, Fr 112, 112D
Sweet hours have perished here, Fr 1785
Tell all the truth but tell it slant—, Fr 1263
The Battle fought between the Soul, Fr 629
The Birds begun at Four o’clock—, Fr 504B
The Black Berry—wears a Thorn in his side—, Fr 548
The Brain, within it’s groove, Fr 563
The Face in Evanescence lain, Fr 1521
The Grass so little has to do, Fr 379
The Heart has many Doors—, Fr 1623
The Heart is the Capital of the Mind., Fr 1381C
The last of Summer is Delight—, Fr 1380
The Luxury to apprehend, Fr 819
The Martyr Poets—did not tell—, Fr 665
The Mind lives on the Heart, Fr 1384
The Moon upon her fluent route, Fr 1574B
The most triumphant Bird, 1285B
The nearest Dream recedes—unrealized—, Fr 304
The only News I know, Fr 820B
The Rat is the concisest Tenant., Fr 1369
The Riddle that we guess, Fr 1180A
The Savior must have been, Fr 1538
The Sea said “Come” to the Brook—, Fr 1275
The Soul has Bandaged moments—, Fr 360
The Soul selects her own Society—, Fr 409
The Soul unto itself, Fr 579A
The Things that never can come back, are several—, Fr 1564
The things we thought that we should do, Fr 1279
The Wind begun to rock the Grass, Fr 796, 796D
The Zeros taught Us—Phosphorus—, Fr 284
Their Hight in Heaven comforts not—, Fr 725
There came a Day—at Summer’s full—Fr 325
There’s a certain Slant of light, Fr 320
These are the days when Birds come back—, Fr 122, 122B
They dropped like Flakes—, Fr 545
They say that “Time assuages”—, Fr 861, 861B
They shut me up in Prose—, Fr 445
This is my letter to the World, Fr 519
This was a Poet—, Fr 446
This World is not conclusion., Fr 373
Those—dying then, Fr 1581
’Tis so appalling—it exhilirates—, Fr 341
Title divine—is mine!, Fr 194A
To disappear enhances—The Man that runs away, Fr 1239C
To learn the Transport by the Pain—, Fr 178
To put this World down, like a Bundle—, Fr 404
To undertake is to achieve, Fr 991
Too happy Time dissolves itself, Fr 1182
Trust adjusts her “Peradventure”—, Fr 1177
Two swimmers wrestled on the spar—, Fr 227
Unto my Books—so good to turn—, Fr 512
We like March—his Shoes are Purple—, Fr 1194
We play at Paste—, Fr 282A
What I see not, I better see—, Fr 869
What mystery pervades a well!, Fr 1433C
What Soft—Cherubic Creatures—, Fr 675
When I hoped I feared—, Fr 594
When I was small, a Woman died—, Fr 518
When we stand on the tops of Things—, Fr 343
Whose are the little beds—I asked, Fr 85
Wild nights—Wild nights!, Fr 269
Your Riches, taught me, poverty—, Fr 418B
ALSO BY BRENDA WINEAPPLE
Hawthorne: A Life
Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner
Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein
The Selected Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier (editor)
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White heat : the friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson / by Brenda Wineapple.—1st ed.
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1. Dickinson, Emily, 1830–1886—Friends and associates. 2. Poets, American—19th century—Biography. 3. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823–1911. 4. Dickinson, Emily, 1830–1886—Correspondence. 5. Poets, American—19th century—Correspondence. I. Title.
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