This miniature book contains 65 selected poems written by Emily Dickinson between the years 1858 and 1865. Emily, an educated American woman from Amherst, Massachusetts lived an eccentric, reclusive life only anonymously publishing less than a dozen of the 1,175 poems she authored. The body of her work was discovered upon her death.The themes in this selection feature a deep sense of time, reflections on life, her surroundings, sorrow, spirit, a recurrent pondering of nature, mortality, occasion...

One need not be a Chamber - to be HauntedOne need not be a House -The Brain has Corridors - surpassingMaterial Place -

It dropped so low in my regardI heard it hit the ground,And go to pieces on the stonesAt bottom of my mindConsider me dazzled, kept. I am content. It is a very slow holiday week and dread may be lifting. Democracy might still matter and there are vaccines on the horizons. My copy is handsome, a delight to hold. Into such I burrowed (and did so bold). There is no Frigate like a BookTo take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a PageOf prancing Poetry –This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppre...

“A Book”There is no frigate like a bookTo take us lands away,Nor any coursers like a pageOf prancing poetry.This traverse may be the poorest takeWithout oppress of toll;How frugal is the chariotThat bears the human soul!

An appreciation of Emily Dickinson's poetry is greatly improved by a familiarity with the enigma of her personal life. Who was this strange hermit, who produced such an abundance of poems - childlike, with nursery-rhyme cadence; wildly inconsistent - yet earnest and pure, and possessing a preternatural perceptiveness of the ways of the world? For this reason, the unexpected highlight of this edition is the detailed, colourful introduction by James Reeves, which is so good a biography and analysi...

Emily Dickinson is one of my favourite poets; she is the gothic queen of poetry. At times she strongly reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe. Her poems are less macabre than Poe’s and certainly less fantastical, focusing more on human perception of the darkness and the realities of life, but her work is undoubtedly on par with his in the vein of dark romanticism. There’s just something exceedingly morose about the way in which she writes. She was terribly depressed for much of her life, and such a pessi...

There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! She described my needs with beauty and accuracy. That is all I need. A book. And coffee. And maybe something to eat. But mostly a book.Last weekend (weekends; the only time I can read like a maniac and write some things), I put on hold all my currently-reading books and dedicated

Rating poetry is so damn hard. There, I said it.Because I'm an English major, I studied Emily Dickinson, but too briefly to my taste, so I decided to buy this small collection of her poetry.Poetry is so personal, sometimes you like someone's style, sometimes you don't, but other times you can absolutely fall in love with a poem but not the next. That's what happened here.I still want to read more of her work, there is something to a poetry that keeps me coming back.3.75

EMILY DICKINSON: Although very little is known about her life, she is still by name alone, one of the most well-known American poets to have ever lived. All of Ms. Dickinson's poems have the ability to move, provoke and delight any reader; however, these two poems tugged at my heartstrings the most:The Soul's Storm.IT struck me every day The lightning was as newAs if the cloud that instant slit And let the fire through.It burned me in the night, It blistered in my dream;It sickened, fresh upon m...

We never know how high we aretill we are called to rise;//Because that fearing is so longHad almost made it dear.

If melancholy, longing and quiet passion are your game, Emily Dickinson is your girl.

1Because I could not stop for CopsThey kindly Stopped for MeThe Roadblocks covered all three lanesPerfect Symmetry2A narrow Fellow - in the grassWith one eyed – snake – and smileYou may have met him – did you notThe local – paedo – phile3I heard a Boy-Band - when I diedThe Radio - was onAnd rushing so - to switch it OffAnd catching - my left ThumbAnd dancing round in - Painful JigAnd - tripping on a clodSuch - Banal invitation - toThe Vestibule of God4Hope is a thing with feathersThat perches in...

That Love is all there is,Is all we know of Love;It is enough, the freight should beProportioned to the grooveDeep, meaningful and thought provoking! - every line from this collection is worth reading more than once. This book can be titled 'The best of Emily Dickinson'. Each word, clearly, came from the heart. Emily Dickinson is, for all the right reasons, considered to be one of the greatest and most original poets of all time.How happy is the little StoneThat rambles in the Road alone,And doe...

"If I can stop one Heart from breaking,I shall not live in vainIf I can ease one Life the Aching, Or cool one Pain," That used to be the motto in my classroom some years back. We are a community of people populating the planet, and we cannot just look for our own pleasure and gain, we must look after each other as well to find true meaning in life. Emily Dickinson was one of the most quotable poets in Middle School in that respect.When we talked about the hopelessness of certain situations, we

“There is the mosaic, pictogram concentration of ideas into which she codes a volcanic elemental imagination, an apocalyptic vision; there is the tranced suspense and deliberation in her punctuation of dashes, and the riddling, oblique artistic strategies, the Shakespearian texture of the language, solid with metaphor, saturated with homeliest imagery and experience; and everywhere there is the teeming carnival of world-life” Introduction by Ted Hughes in Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson. I th...

She started instapoetry, y'all!"Sometimes with the HeartSeldom with the SoulScarcer once with the MightFew - love at all."(Love it so much. Few words, speaks everything.)*Romance and tragedy; the broken heart and hope*Power of words *Childhood, her sisters*Life's uncertainties and reality*Women, gender, *Some favorite verses:"Success is counted sweetestBy those who ne'er succeed.To comprehend a nectarRequires sorest need."..."As by the dead we love to sit,Become so wondrous dear -As for the lost...

First of all, my rating is for the poems themselves and not for this edition. It was very poorly done and I used it primarily as a guide for a group read, while finding the poems otherwise for actually reading. I would urge anyone who wishes to read Dickinson to seek out a much better edition than this one.Not every poem in this collection is one of Dickinson’s best, but each of them has something important to say to us, if we are open and listen.Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in th...

2016: I loved this. I love short poems and Emily - we're on a first name basis - is queen of the short form. I adored more than half the poems in this 100 poem collection. I'm pretty sure Emily and I would have gotten along, especially ten years ago when I was a goth and writing poetry every day!2020: I love the themes Dickinson explores, including nature, death, grief and thought. I also love the short length of the poems and their fairly simple language. It gives me just enough to casually ana...

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260I'm Nobody! Who are you?Are you — Nobody — too?Then there's a pair of us!Don't tell! they'd advertise — you know!How dreary — to be — Somebody!How public — like a Frog —To tell one's name — the livelong June —To an admiring Bog!670One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted —One need not be a House —The Brain has Corridors — surpassingMaterial Place —340I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourners to and froKept treading — treading — till it seemedThat Sense was breaking through —And when they al...