It's all I have to bring today - A poem by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson - It's all I have to bring today

It's all I have to bring today --
This, and my heart beside --
This, and my heart, and all the fields --
And all the meadows wide --
Be sure you count -- should I forget
Some one the sum could tell --
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.

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Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 26. It's all I have to bring today Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Poem of the Day: Jun 22 2002 Comment 7 of 7, added on June 14th, 2006 at 1:15 PM. I received this poem without understanding why and I so I am analyzing why it has shown up in my life. Similar to another disection is that there is a longing to express a love that is not able to be received as satisfactory but the writer is saying that she can give only what she has and that should be enough. Fab from United States Comment 6 of 7, added on January 7th, 2006 at 7:58 AM. i studied english literature for just over a year, not the most impressive of studies i kno but moving on. When I studied this poem i came to the same conclusion. Dickinson was trying to express her belief that all she had to offer is what she holds in her heart, but at the same time I also got the impression that she believed that was far more than enough. She says that although she only has her heart to bring she also has the fields and meadows wide, inspiring the idea that her heart is a lot more than it may at first seem. This, I think, is supported by her saying that she could lose count of the value of her own heart. that made so much more sense when it was in my head then when i wrote it down but there you go, just my thoughts. Angela from Australia Comment 5 of 7, added on January 7th, 2005 at 8:56 AM. I really think that this is also a life lesson. What Emily is trying to say is that all anybody has to offer if you strip them down to the minimum, is their heart and that is it. Money and fame are hear today and gone tomorrow, and the only thing left is the real person left in your true heart. Marc from Canada More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, It's all I have to bring today, has received 7 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Emily Dickinson with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Emily Dickinson Poem: 26. It's all I have to bring today Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Year: Published/Written in 1955 Last read: May 9 2008, 9:31PM Poem of the Day: Jun 22 2002 Viewed 16035 times. Added on January 7th, 2005 at 8:56 AM.

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