Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinsonwas an American poet. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Although part of a prominent family with strong ties to its community, Dickinson lived much of her life highly introverted. After studying at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she briefly attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a noted penchant for white clothing and became known for her reluctance to...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 December 1830
CityAmherst, MA
The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.
Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!
What Soft--Cherubic Creatures-- These Gentlewomen are-- One would as soon assault a Plush-- Or violate a Star
Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs.
If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me.
I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves.
I never saw a meme; I never saw the sea.
The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam.
Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.
Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true
After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.
To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.
Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.