1. Teach Him -- When He makes the names - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2745 times on American Poems.

Teach Him -- When He makes the names --
Such an one -- to say --
On his babbling -- Berry -- lips --
As should sound -- to me --
Were my Ear -- as near his nest --
As my thought -- today --
As should sound --
"Forbid us not" --
Some like "Emily."(Read full poem)

Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted,
Your love was not all in vain.
I owe whatever I was in life
To your hope that would not give me up,
To your love that saw me still as good.
Dear Emily Sparks, let me tell you the story.
I pass... (Read full poem)

3. To Emily Dickinson - written by Hart Crane
Read 3696 times on American Poems.

You who desired so much--in vain to ask--
Yet fed you hunger like an endless task,
Dared dignify the labor, bless the quest--
Achieved that stillness ultimately best,

Being, of all, least sought for: Emily, hear!
O sweet, dead Silencer, most... (Read full poem)

What I can do -- I will --
Though it be little as a Daffodil --
That I cannot -- must be
Unknown to possibility --(Read full poem)

5. Few, yet enough, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 3042 times on American Poems.

Few, yet enough,
Enough is One --
To that ethereal throng
Have not each one of us the right
To stealthily belong?(Read full poem)

Take all away --
The only thing worth larceny
Is left -- the Immortality --(Read full poem)

7. If What we could -- were what we would - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2394 times on American Poems.

If What we could -- were what we would --
Criterion -- be small --
It is the Ultimate of Talk --
The Impotence to Tell --(Read full poem)

Unto the Whole -- how add?
Has "All" a further realm --
Or Utmost an Ulterior?
Oh, Subsidy of Balm!(Read full poem)

9. Were it to be the last - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1596 times on American Poems.

Were it to be the last
How infinite would be
What we did not suspect was marked --
Our final interview.(Read full poem)

We never know we go when we are going --
We jest and shut the Door --
Fate -- following -- behind us bolts it --
And we accost no more --(Read full poem)

11. Had I known that the first was the last - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2768 times on American Poems.

Had I known that the first was the last
I should have kept it longer.
Had I known that the last was the first
I should have drunk it stronger.
Cup, it was your fault,
Lip was not the liar.
No, lip, it was yours,
Bliss was most to blame.(Read full poem)

They might not need me -- yet they might --
I'll let my Heart be just in sight --
A smile so small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity --(Read full poem)

13. Had this one Day not been. - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1941 times on American Poems.

Had this one Day not been.
Or could it cease to be
How smitten, how superfluous,
Were every other Day!

Lest Love should value less
What Loss would value more
Had it the stricken privilege,
It cherishes before.(Read full poem)

The Day she goes
Or Day she stays
Are equally supreme --
Existence has a stated width
Departed, or at Home --(Read full poem)

15. I'm Nobody! Who are you? - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 40161 times on American Poems.

I'm Nobody!  Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell!  they'd advertise -- you know!

How dreary -- to be -- Somebody!
How public -- like a Frog --
To tell one's name -- the livelong June --
To an admiring Bog!(Read full poem)

Besides this May
We know
There is Another --
How fair
Our Speculations of the Foreigner!

Some know Him whom We knew --
Sweet Wonder --
A Nature be
Where Saints, and our plain going Neighbor
Keep May!(Read full poem)

17. One and One -- are One -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1820 times on American Poems.

One and One -- are One --
Two -- be finished using --
Well enough for Schools --
But for Minor Choosing --

Life -- just -- or Death --
Or the Everlasting --
More -- would be too vast
For the Soul's Comprising --(Read full poem)

That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.
Believing what we don't believe
Does not exhilarate.

That if it be, it be at best
An ablative estate --
This instigates an appetite
Precisely opposite.(Read full poem)

19. Perhaps they do not go so far - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1669 times on American Poems.

Perhaps they do not go so far
As we who stay, suppose --
Perhaps come closer, for the lapse
Of their corporeal clothes --

It may be know so certainly
How short we have to fear
That comprehension antedates
And estimates us there --(Read full poem)

I cannot want it more --
I cannot want it less --
My Human Nature's fullest force
Expends itself on this.

And yet it nothing is
To him who easy owns --
Is Worth itself or Distance
He fathoms who obtains.(Read full poem)

21. You cannot take itself - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1539 times on American Poems.

You cannot take itself
From any Human soul --
That indestructible estate
Enable him to dwell --
Impregnable as Light
That every man behold
But take away as difficult
As undiscovered Gold --(Read full poem)

Each Second is the last
Perhaps, recalls the Man
Just measuring unconsciousness
The Sea and Spar between.

To fail within a Chance --
How terribler a thing
Than perish from the Chance's list
Before the Perishing!(Read full poem)

23. Her Grace is all she has -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1922 times on American Poems.

Her Grace is all she has --
And that, so least displays --
One Art to recognize, must be,
Another Art, to praise.(Read full poem)

Fame is a bee.
It has a song --
It has a sting --
Ah, too, it has a wing.(Read full poem)

25. Between My Country -- and the Others -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1679 times on American Poems.

Between My Country -- and the Others --
There is a Sea --
But Flowers -- negotiate between us --
As Ministry.(Read full poem)