Poetry
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A Thunderstorm by Emily Dickinson
The wind begun to rock the grassWith threatening tunes and low, –He flung a menace at the earth,A menace at…
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Autumn by Emily Dickinson
Autumn is a lovely Emily Dickinson poem usually read by early elementary students to introduce rhyming schemes, The morns are…
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A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest by Emily Dickinson
A wounded deer leaps highest,I’ve heard the hunter tell;‘Tis but the ecstasy of death,And then the brake is still. The…
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Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson’s most celebrated masterwork, Because I Could Not Stop for Death is often taught in high school grades 11-12.…
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Beclouded by Emily Dickinson
The sky is low, the clouds are mean,A travelling flake of snowAcross a barn or through a rutDebates if it…
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Bless God, he went as soldiers by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson’s most intense period of writing was during the Civil War. Though most of her works do not directly…
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Chartless by Emily Dickinson
I never saw a moor,I never saw the sea;Yet now I know how the heather looks,And what a wave must…
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Come Slowly, Eden! by Emily Dickinson
Come slowly, Eden!lips unused to thee,Bashful, sip thy jasmines,As the fainting bee, Reaching late his flower,Round her chamber hums,Counts his…
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Death Sets a Thing by Emily Dickinson
Death sets a thing significantThe eye had hurried by,Except a perished creatureEntreat us tenderly To ponder little workmanshipsIn crayon or…
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Did The Harebell Loose Her Girdle by Emily Dickinson
Did the harebell loose her girdleTo the lover bee,Would the bee the harebell hallowMuch as formerly? Did the paradise, persuaded,Yield…
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