Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
The famous hermit from Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published only eight poems during her lifetime. Today her nearly 2,000 succinct, profound meditations on life and death, nature, love, and art make her one of the most original and important poets in English.
POEMS
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
How many times these low feet staggered
I felt a Funeral in my Brain
It sifts from Leaden Sieves
It was not death, for I stood up
Much Madness is divinest Sense -
Safe in their alabaster chambers
There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House