Emily Dickinson

Work

The following works of Emily Dickinson are reviewed on this site.

• Writer: “Awake Ye Muses Nine, Sing Me a Strain Divine” (1850)
• Writer: “There Is Another Sky” (1851)
• Writer: “‘Sic Transit Gloria Mundi’” (1852)
• Writer: “On This Wondrous Sea” (1853)
• Writer: “I Have a Bird in Spring” (1854)
• Writer: “A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!” (1858)
• Writer: “Frequently the Woods Are Pink” (1858)
• Writer: “Heart! We Will Forget Him!” (1858/1859)
• Writer: “I Hav’nt Told My Garden Yet” (1858)
• Writer: “I Often Passed the Village” (1858)
• Writer: “I Robbed the Woods” (1858)
• Writer: “If I Should Die” (1858)
• Writer: “If Those I Loved Were Lost” (1858)
• Writer: “Nobody Knows This Little Rose” (1858)
• Writer: “Oh If Remembering Were Forgetting” (1858)
• Writer: “Snowflakes” (1858)
• Writer: “Taken from Men — This Morning” (1858)
• Writer: “The Feet of People Walking Home” (1858)
• Writer: “We Lose — Because We Win” (1858)
• Writer: “A Science — so the Savants Say” (1859)
• Writer: “Angels in the Early Morning” (1859)
• Writer: “Bless God, He Went As Soldiers” (1859)
• Writer: “For Every Bird a Nest” (1859)
• Writer: “Good Night, Because We Must” (1859)
• Writer: “If She Had Been the Mistletoe” (1858/1859)
• Writer: “It Did Not Surprise Me” (1859)
• Writer: “My Friend Attacks My Friend” (1859)
• Writer: “Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers” (1859)
• Writer: “So Bashful When I Spied Her” (1859)
• Writer: “Soul, Wilt Thou Toss Again?” (1859)
• Writer: “South Winds Jostle Them” (1859)
• Writer: “Success Is Counted Sweetest” (1859)
• Writer: “The Daisy Follows Soft the Sun” (1859/1860)
• Writer: “The Rainbow Never Tells Me” (1859)
• Writer: “There’s Something Quieter Than Sleep” (1858/1859)
• Writer: “To Venerate the Simple Days” (1858/1859)
• Writer: “Water, Is Taught by Thirst” (1859)
• Writer: “What Inn Is This” (1859)
• Writer: “Where I Have Lost, I Softer Tread” (1859/1860)
• Writer: “Who Never Lost, Are Unprepared” (1859)
• Writer: “Whose Cheek Is This?” (1859)
• Writer: “‘Arcturus’ Is His Other Name” (1859)
• Writer: “‘Houses’ — so the Wise Men Tell Me” (1859)
• Writer: “’Twas Such a Little — Little Boat” (1859/1860)
• Writer: “A Fuzzy Fellow Without Feet” (1860)
• Writer: “A Slash of Blue” (1860/1861)
• Writer: “A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest” (1860)
• Writer: “Come Slowly — Eden” (1860/1861)
• Writer: “Dying! Dying in the Night” (1860/1861)
• Writer: “I Shall Know Why, When Time Is Over” (1860/1861)
• Writer: “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed” (1860/1861)
• Writer: “Make Me a Picture of the Sun” (1860/1861)
• Writer: “Musicians Wrestle Everywhere” (1860/1861)
• Writer: “My River Runs to Thee” (1860/1861)
• Writer: “Pine Bough” (1860/1861)
• Writer: “The Rose Did Caper on Her Cheek” (1860/1861)
• Writer: “What Is — ‘Paradise’” (1860/1861)
• Writer: “A Solemn Thing — It Was — I Said” (1861/1862)
• Writer: “I Came to Buy a Smile — Today” (1861)
• Writer: “I Held a Jewel in My Fingers” (1861)
• Writer: “If Your Nerve, Deny You” (1861/1862)
• Writer: “It Can’t be ‘Summer’” (1861)
• Writer: “Many a Phrase Has the English Language” (1861/1862)
• Writer: “Of Bronze — and Blaze” (1861/1862)
• Writer: “Over the Fence” (1861)
• Writer: “The Drop, That Wrestles in the Sea” (1861)
• Writer: “Unto Like Story — Trouble Has Enticed Me” (1861/1862)
• Writer: “What If I Say I Shall Not Wait” (1861/1862)
• Writer: “Where Ships of Purple — Gently Toss” (1861/1861)
• Writer: “Wild Nights — Wild Nights” (1861)
• Writer: “You’re Right — ‘The Way Is Narrow’” (1861)
• Writer: “‘Hope’ Is the Thing With Feathers” (1861/1862)
• Writer: “A Dying Tiger — Moaned for Drink” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “A Secret Told” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “Again — His Voice Is at the Door” (1862)
• Writer: “At Least — to Pray — Is Left — Is Left” (1862)
• Writer: “Beauty — be Not Caused — It Is” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “Blazing in Gold and Quenching in Purple” (1862)
• Writer: “Dont Put Up My Thread & Needle” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “Doom Is the House Without the Door” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “Forever — Is Composed of Nows” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “From Blank to Blank” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “Funny — to be a Century” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “Good Morning — Midnight” (1862)
• Writer: “Her Sweet Weight on My Heart a Night” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “I Could Not Prove the Years Had Feet” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “I Died for Beauty, but Was Scarce” (1862)
• Writer: “I Dwell in Possibility” (1862)
• Writer: “I Envy Seas, Whereon He Rides” (1862)
• Writer: “I Had No Time to Hate” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “I Heard a Fly Buzz — When I Died” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “I Know a Place Where Summer Strives” (1862)
• Writer: “I Measure Every Grief I Meet” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “I Should Have Been Too Glad, I See” (1862)
• Writer: “I Think I Was Enchanted” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “I Think the Longest Hour of All” (1862)
• Writer: “I Took My Power in My Hand” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “I Would Not Paint — a Picture” (1862)
• Writer: “I Years Had Been From Home” (1862)
• Writer: “If Anybody’s Friend be Dead” (1862)
• Writer: “It Sifts From Leaden Sieves” (1862)
• Writer: “Much Madness Is Divinest Sense” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “Not in This World to See His Face” (1862)
• Writer: “Of All the Souls That Stand Create” (1862)
• Writer: “One Need Not be a Chamber — to be Haunted” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “Rest at Night” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “She Dealt Her Pretty Words Like Blades” (1862)
• Writer: “Sweet — You Forgot — but I Remembered” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “The Angle of a Landscape” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “The Black Berry — Wears a Thorn in His Side” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “The Day Came Slow — till Five o'Clock” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “The First Day’s Night Had Come” (1862)
• Writer: “The Lightning Playeth — All the While” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “The Love a Life Can Show Below” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “The Manner of It’s Death” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “The Martyr Poets — Did Not Tell” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “The Months Have Ends — the Years — a Knot” (1862)
• Writer: “The Moon Is Distant From the Sea” (1862)
• Writer: “The Night Was Wide, and Furnished Scant” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “The Power to Be True to You” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “The Spider Holds a Silver Ball” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “The Test of Love – Is Death” (1862)
• Writer: “The Wind Did’nt Come From the Orchard — Today” (18)
• Writer: “The Wind — Tapped Like a Tired Man” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “There Came a Day at Summer’s Full” (1862)
• Writer: “They Shut Me Up in Prose” (1862)
• Writer: “This Is My Letter to the World” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “To Hear an Oriole Sing” (1862)
• Writer: “To Offer Brave Assistance” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “Trust in the Unexpected” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “Two Butterflies went Out at Noon” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” (1862)
• Writer: “We Learned the Whole of Love” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “We Talked as Girls Do” (1862)
• Writer: “When Diamonds Are a Legend” (1862/1863)
• Writer: “You Cannot Put a Fire Out” (1862)
• Writer: “‘Why Do I Love’ You, Sir?” (1862)
• Writer: “A Curious Cloud Surprised the Sky” (1863)
• Writer: “A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree” (1863/1864)
• Writer: “A Thought Went Up My Mind Today” (1863)
• Writer: “Bloom Upon the Mountain — Stated” (1863)
• Writer: “Drama’s Vitallest Expression Is the Common Day” (1863)
• Writer: “Expectation — Is Contentment” (1863/1864)
• Writer: “Grief Is a Mouse” (1863)
• Writer: “I Could Bring You Jewels — Had I a Mind to” (1863)
• Writer: “I Send Two Sunsets” (1863)
• Writer: “Just to be Rich” (1863)
• Writer: “Light Is Sufficient to Itself” (1863/1864)
• Writer: “My Life Had Stood — a Loaded Gun” (1863)
• Writer: “Nature — the Gentlest Mother Is” (1863)
• Writer: “Never for Society” (1863)
• Writer: “She Staked Her Feathers — Gained an Arc” (1863/1864)
• Writer: “Such Is the Force of Happiness” (1863/1864)
• Writer: “Sweet Mountains — Ye Tell Me No Lie” (1863)
• Writer: “The Judge Is Like the Owl” (1863)
• Writer: “The Loneliness One Dare Not Sound” (1863/1864)
• Writer: “The Sun Kept Setting — Setting — Still” (1863)
• Writer: “They dropped like Flakes” (1863)
• Writer: “Time Feels so Vast That Were It Not” (1863/1864)
• Writer: “To Wait an Hour — Is Long” (1863/1864)
• Writer: “Where Thou Art — That — Is Home” (1863)
• Writer: “A Light Exists in Spring” (1864/1865)
• Writer: “As Frost Is Best Conceived” (1864/1865)
• Writer: “As Sleigh Bells Seem in Summer” (1864)
• Writer: “Fairer Through Fading — as the Day” (1864)
• Writer: “How Far Is It to Heaven?” (1864/1865)
• Writer: “I Felt a Cleaving in My Mind” (1864)
• Writer: “I Made Slow Riches but My Gain” (1864/1865)
• Writer: “If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking” (1864/1865)
• Writer: “Of Tolling Bell I Ask the Cause?” (1864/1865)
• Writer: “Peace Is a Fiction of Our Faith” (1864/1865)
• Writer: “The Admirations — and Contempts — of Time” (1864)
• Writer: “The Hollows Round His Eager Eyes” (1864/1865)
• Writer: “The Poets Light but Lamps” (1864)
• Writer: “The Robin for the Crumb” (1864)
• Writer: “The Soul’s Distinct Connection” (1864/1865)
• Writer: “The Sun and Moon Must Make Their Haste” (1864/1865)
• Writer: “The Wind Begun to Knead the Grass” (1864)
• Writer: “This Chasm, Sweet, Upon My Life” (1864/1865)
• Writer: “This Consciousness That Is Aware” (1864)
• Writer: “This Is a Blossom of the Brain” (1865/1866)
• Writer: “Two Travellers Perishing in Snow” (1864/1865)
• Writer: “Unable Are the Loved to Die” (1864/1865)
• Writer: “What I See Not, I Better See” (1864)
• Writer: “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” (1865)
• Writer: “Air Has No Residence, No Neighbor” (1865)
• Writer: “Crumbling Is Not an Instant’s Act” (1865)
• Writer: “Further in Summer Than the Birds” (1865)
• Writer: “Gratitude — Is Not the Mention” (1865)
• Writer: “I Heard, as If I Had No Ear” (1865)
• Writer: “The Bustle in a House” (1865/1866)
• Writer: “The Dying Need but Little, Dear” (1865)
• Writer: “The Largest Fire Ever Known” (1865)
• Writer: “Three Weeks Passed Since — I Had Seen Her” (1865)
• Writer: “Up Life’s Hill With My Little Bundle” (1865)
• Writer: “The Frost of Death Was on the Pane” (1866/1869)
• Writer: “The Merchant of the Picturesque” (1867/1868)
• Writer: “Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant” (1868/1872)
• Writer: “The Snow That Never Drifts” (1868/1869)
• Writer: “These Are the Nights That Beetles Love” (1868)
• Writer: “How Many Schemes May Die” (1869/1874)
• Writer: “The Duties of the Wind Are Few” (1869)
• Writer: “A Not Admitting of the Wound” (1870)
• Writer: “Oh Shadow on the Grass” (1871)
• Writer: “So Much of Heaven Has Gone From Earth” (1871/1872)
• Writer: “Step Lightly on This Narrow Spot” (1871)
• Writer: “The Mountains Stood in Haze” (1871/1873)
• Writer: “Who Goes to Dine Must Take His Feast” (1871/1872)
• Writer: “A Word Dropped Careless on a Page” (1872/1873)
• Writer: “Longing Is Like the Seed” (1872/1873)
• Writer: “My Triumph Lasted Till the Drums” (1871/1872)
• Writer: “Risk Is the Hair That Holds the Tun” (1872)
• Writer: “Because That You Are Going” (1873/1874)
• Writer: “There Is No Frigate Like a Book” (1873)
• Writer: “While We Were Fearing It, It Came” (1873/1874)
• Writer: “As Summer Into Autumn Slips” (1874/1875)
• Writer: “Delight’s Despair at Setting” (1874/1875)
• Writer: “Not With a Club, the Heart Is Broken” (1874)
• Writer: “Let Me Not Mar That Perfect Dream” (1875)
• Writer: “Upon a Lilac Sea” (1875)
• Writer: “Dreams are the Subtle Dower” (1876)
• Writer: “How Much the Present Moment Means” (1876/1877)
• Writer: “Long Years Apart — Can Make No” (1876)
• Writer: “The Bat Is Dun, With Wrinkled Wings” (1876)
• Writer: “Trusty as the Stars” (1876)
• Writer: “It Sounded as If the Streets Were Running” (1877)
• Writer: “Lay this Laurel on the One” (1877)
• Writer: “One Joy of so Much Anguish” (1877)
• Writer: “What Mystery Pervades a Well” (1877)
• Writer: “Death Is the Supple Suitor” (1878)
• Writer: “Hope Is a Subtle Glutton” (1879/1882)
• Writer: “If Wrecked Upon the Shoal of Thought” (1879)
• Writer: “The Fascinating Chill That Music Leaves” (1879)
• Writer: “Glass Was the Street — in Tinsel Peril” (1880)
• Writer: “My Country Need Not Change Her Gown” (1880/1881)
• Writer: “The Face in Evanescence Lain” (1880)
• Writer: “You Cannot Make Remembrance Grow” (1880)
• Writer: “A Faded Boy — in Sallow Clothes” (1881)
• Writer: “The Bird Her Punctual Music Brings” (1881/1883)
• Writer: “The Butterfly Upon the Sky” (1881)
• Writer: “He Ate and Drank the Precious Words” (1882)
• Writer: “No Matter Where the Saints Abide” (1882)
• Writer: “Sweet Pirate of the Heart” (1882)
• Writer: “Those — Dying Then” (1882)
• Writer: “No Ladder Needs the Bird but Skies” (1883)
• Writer: “The Lassitudes of Contemplation” (1883)
• Writer: “The Spirit Lasts — but in What Mode” (1883)
• Writer: “There Came a Wind Like a Bugle” (1883)
• Writer: “A Drunkard Cannot Meet a Cork” (1884)
• Writer: “Not Knowing When the Dawn Will Come” (1884)
• Writer: “Talk Not to Me of Summer Trees” (1884)
• Writer: “Who Is It Seeks My Pillow Nights” (1884)
• Writer: “Softened by Time’s Consummate Plush” (1896)
• Writer: “Sweet Hours Have Perished Here” (1896)
• Writer: “To Make a Prairie It Takes a Clover and One Bee” (1896)
• Writer: “A Cap of Lead Across the Sky” (1914)
• Writer: “Beauty Crowds Me Till I Die” (1914)
• Writer: “Fame Is a Fickle Food” (1914)
• Writer: “I Did Not Reach Thee” (1914)
• Writer: “There Is a Solitude of Space” (1914)
• Writer: “T’was Comfort in Her Dying Room” (1914)
• Writer: “As Subtle as Tomorrow” (1945)
• Writer: “Did Life’s Penurious Length” (1945)
• Writer: “Her Face Was in a Bed of Hair” (1945)
• Writer: “Love Can Do All but Raise the Dead” (1945)
• Writer: “The Waters Chased Him as He Fled” (1945)
• Writer: “There Comes an Hour When Begging Stops” (1945)
• Writer: “Fame Is a Bee” (1955)
• Writer: “Sometimes With the Heart” (1955)
• Writer: “The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise” (1955)
• Writer: “They Talk as Slow as Legends Grow” (1955)

Other

The following make direct references to the Emily Dickinson tag.

• Little Women (1868)
• “Der Panther” (1903)