Selected Poetry of Emily Dickenson

SELECTED POEMS OF

CONTENTS Success is Counted Sweetest I Dwell in Possiblity I Never Saw a Moor To See the Summer Sky If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking There is a Solitude of Space The Murmur of a Bee I’m Nobody! Who Are You?

SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break, agonized and clear.

I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY

I dwell in Possibility – A fairer House than Prose – More numerous of Windows – Superior – for Doors – Of Chambers as the Cedars – Impregnable of Eye – And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky – Of Visitors – the fairest – For Occupation –This – The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise –

I NEVER SAW A MOOR

I never saw a Moor – I never saw the Sea – Yet know I how the Heather looks And what a Billow be.

I never spoke with God Nor visited in Heaven – Yet certain am I of the spot As if the Checks were given –

TO SEE THE SUMMER SKY

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IF I CAN STOP ONE HEART FROM BREAKING

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain

THERE IS A SOLITUDE OF SPACE

There is a solitude of space A solitude of sea A solitude of death, but these Society shall be Compared with that profounder site That polar privacy A soul admitted to itself â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Finite infinity.

THE MURMUR OF A BEE

The murmer of a bee.

A witchcraft yieldeth me.

If any ask me why, ‘Twere easier to die than tell.

The red upon the hill Taketh away my will; If anybody sneer, Take care, for God is here, That’s all.

The breaking of the day Addeth to my degree; If any ask me how, Artist, who drew me so, Must tell!

I’M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU?

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