Emily Dickinson

1830–1886

United States, 1830–1886. Fewer than a dozen poems published in her lifetime; nearly eighteen hundred left hand-sewn into little booklets. Her work is in the public domain worldwide.
  • I heard a Fly buzz—when I died— (1862)
  • A Book (1890)
  • A Day (1890)
  • A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest (1890)
  • Angels in the early morning (1890)
  • Because I could not stop for Death (1890)
  • Exultation Is the Going (1890)
  • From the Chrysalis (1890)
  • Glee! The Great Storm Is Over (1890)
  • Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart? (1890)
  • I Died for Beauty (1890)
  • I Never Lost as Much but Twice (1890)
  • I Never Saw a Moor (1890)
  • I Reason, Earth Is Short (1890)
  • I shall know why, when time is over (1890)
  • I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed (1890)
  • If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking (1890)
  • If You Were Coming in the Fall (1890)
  • Much Madness Is Divinest Sense (1890)
  • New feet within my garden go (1890)
  • One Dignity Delays for All (1890)
  • Our Share of Night to Bear (1890)
  • Sleep Is Supposed to Be (1890)
  • Success (1890)
  • Success Is Counted Sweetest (1890)
  • The bee is not afraid of me (1890)
  • The Brain Within Its Groove (1890)
  • The Bustle in a House (1890)
  • The Daisy Follows Soft the Sun (1890)
  • The Grass (1890)
  • The Heart Asks Pleasure First (1890)
  • The Last Night That She Lived (1890)
  • There's a Certain Slant of Light (1890)
  • This Is My Letter to the World (1890)
  • To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave (1890)
  • To Know Just How He Suffered (1890)
  • A Bird Came Down the Walk (1891)
  • "Hope" is the thing with feathers (c. 1861)
  • I'm Nobody! Who Are You? (c. 1861)
  • Wild Nights! Wild Nights! (c. 1861)