Selected Poems

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486264661 ISBN 13: 9780486264660

Publisher: Dover Publications, 1990

The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
Generally considered among the greatest American poets, Emily Dickinson has been read, studied, and admired by generations of literature students and poetry lovers. This modestly priced edition presents over 100 of her best-known and most-loved poems, reprinted from authoritative early editions. Unflinchingly honest, psychologically penetrating, and technically adventurous, the poems include such favorites as "The Chariot," "I taste a liquor never brewed," "The Snake," "I'm nobody, who are you?" "A Book," "There's a certain slant of light," "Hope," and many more.

Review:

At Length
The Battlefield
Beclouded
The Bee
Bequest
The Bluebird
The Brain, Within Its Groove
The Chariot
Chartless
Choice
Clock
Colloquy
Compensation
Contrast
A Country Burial
A Day
Day's Parlor
Delight Becomes Pictorial
Disenchantment
Dying
The Dying Need But Little, Dear
Enough
Escape
Evening (1)
Evening (2)
Experience
Farewell
The First Lesson
Forbidden Fruit: 2
The Forgotten Grave
Fringed Gentian
Ghosts
The Goal
Good Night! Which Put The Candle Out?
Griefs
The Heart Asks Pleasure First
Hope (1)
Hunger
I Breathed Enough To Learn [or, Take] The Trick
I Felt A Funeral In My Brain
I Had No Time To Hate
I Know A Place Where Summer Strives
I Lived On Dread; To Those Who Know
I Meant To Find Her When I Came
I Went To Heaven
I'm Nobody! Who Are You
If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
If You Were Coming In The Fall
Immortality
In Shadow
In The Garden (1)
In Vain
Intoxication
It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up
It's All I Have To Bring To-day
The Journey
The Letter
A Light Exists In Spring
A Little Road Not Made Of Man
The Lost Jewel
The Lost Thought
March
The Master
Me! Come! My Dazzled Face
Memorials
Mother Nature
My Nosegays Are For Captives
The Mystery Of Pain
Nature Rarer Uses Yellow
The Nearest Dream Recedes, Unrealized
The Only Ghost I Ever Saw
The Pedigree Of Honey (diff. Vers.)
Playmates
Post-mortem
Presentiment
The Railway Train
Retrospect
Returning
Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers
The Sea
The Sea Of Sunset
A Shady Friend For Torrid Days
The Show
Sleeping
The Snake
So Bashful When I Spied Her
So Proud She Was To Die
The Soul's Storm
Summer Shower
There's A Certain Slant Of Light
There's Been A Death In The Opposite House
They Say That 'time Assuages'
This Is My Letter To The World
The Thought Beneath So Slight A Film
A Thought Went Up My Mind To-day
A Thunder-storm (2nd Version)
To My Quick Ear The Leaves Conferred
Two Voyagers
Utterance
Victory Comes Late
We Outgrow Love Like Other Things
We Play At Paste
The Wife
Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
The Wind (1)
The Wind's Visit
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ