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Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated) | Emily Dickenson
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This complete compendium of Emily Dickinson's poetry offers the reader a vivid portrait of one of Massachusetts most famous and enigmatic poets. Although a greatly talented writer, Emily Dickinson lived most of her life in private seclusion, in contrast to the culture of the time which emphasized community and socializing. Throughout her life, Emily's family ensured her care and comfort; she lived a life characterized by quiet self-seclusion. Emily's early life ensured a great standard of education, with her aunts in particular noting her inclination toward musical and literary interests. Contemporary scholars generally agree that Emily Dickinson's isolation was chiefly the result of a persistent depression. The death of a school principal she admired, and of several friends, plummeted her toward isolation during the prime of her life. Despite her illness, she managed to travel with her family to see life beyond her hometown of Amhurst and publish a few of her poems. In later life, Dickinson spent much of her time looking after her ailing mother in complete seclusion. During these years she compiled all of her poetry from youth, redrafted many entries, and meticulously organized her work into manuscript books which her sister discovered shortly after her death at the home. For its eloquence and beauty, Emily Dickinson's poems is regarded as one of the greatest examples of American verse, and today commonly comprises school syllabuses in the United States.
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a penchant for white clothing and was known for her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even to leave her bedroom. Dickinson never married, and most of her friendships were based entirely upon correspondence.
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TheSpineView Love! I also chose a Dickinson poem. 2mo
IndoorDame @TheSpineView yours is a great one too! She has so many perfect choices! ❤️ 2mo
dabbe ❤️💜🩷 2mo
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““If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?”
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I saw no Way — The Heavens were stitched —
I felt the Columns close —
The Earth reversed her Hemispheres —
I touched the Universe —

(CONT)

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And back it slid — and I alone —
A Speck upon a Ball —
Went out upon Circumference —
Beyond the Dip of Bell —

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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise

As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —
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vivastory At the end of last year I bought the tagged book. I own a few much loved editions of Emily Dickinson's selected poetry; she has been a personal favorite for many years. I made it a loose goal to read through the complete volume this year. Throughout the year I dipped in & out at random times when I had free time & needed boosts of clarity, fortitude, & the charged experience that Dickinson's work offers. A few days ago I realized that I had (CONT) 4mo
vivastory only a couple of hundred pages left & have since finished & I am so happy that this is my final read of the year. The experience of reading all 1.775 of Dickinson's poems, even if it was spaced out over months, was remarkable. This is a volume that I will be returning to for years to come. The Complete Poems were published nearly 70 years after her passing, in their restored format. Seventy years after the publication of The Complete Poems (CONT) 4mo
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vivastory we are still coming to terms with Dickinson's idiosyncratic voice. 4mo
TrishB What a fantastic way to read them. 4mo
LeahBergen What a great reading project! She‘s always been a favourite of mine, too. 4mo
batsy I agree, a fantastic reading project. You might have given me an idea for me to read her Complete Poems this way for 2024. She's incredible 💜 4mo
vivastory @TrishB Thanks, Trish! Happy New Year 🙌 4mo
vivastory @LeahBergen Thanks, Leah! I had been meaning to do this for...years & years. So, it felt like quite the accomplishment. Happy New Year, friend 😃 4mo
vivastory @batsy I have a few of the Collected/Completed Poetry editions & I think that this is how I am going to do it in the future. My goal for 2024 is Saga of The Icelanders & maybe The Complete Translations of Heaney. Happy New Year 💙 (edited) 4mo
Branwen I love Emily Dickinson so much! 🥰 What a wonderful reading journey you took! I was lucky enough a few years ago to visit the Emily Dickinson exhibit they had at The Morgan Library in NYC! It was life changing, for sure! 💕📚 4mo
vivastory @Branwen That's awesome!! I have been to NYC a few times have had some great experiences, but have yet to see anything to do with Dickinson! I think that people often overlook library exhibits. Several years ago I saw a Shakespeare First Folio exhibit at my local library & it was breathtaking 4mo
batsy @vivastory I got out my Dickinson's Complete Poems and it was an excellent decision. Thank you for the inspiration! Happy New Year to you 💜 4mo
Branwen @vivastory Oh wooooooow! I can't even imagine how amazing that must have been! 🥰📚 4mo
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#1712

A Pit-but Heaven over it-
And Heaven beside, and Heaven abroad,
and yet a Pit-
With Heaven over it.

To stir would be to slip-
To look would be to drop-
To dream-to sap the Prop
That holds my chances up.
Ah! Pit! With Heaven over it!

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The depth is all my thought-
I dare not ask my feet-
'Twould start us where we sit
So straight you'd scarce suspect
It was a pit -- with fathoms under it-
Its circuit just the same.
Seed-summer-tomb-
Whose Doom to whom?
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batsy Love! 4mo
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#1480
The fascinating chill that music leaves
Is Earth's corroboration
Of Ecstasy's impediment —
'Tis Rapture's germination
In timid and tumultuous soil
A fine — estranging creature —
To something upper wooing us
But not to our Creator —

IndoorDame ♥️♥️♥️ 4mo
Aimeesue I went to school in Amherst and have been wracking my brain trying to figure out where that statue is because I couldn‘t place it. Turns out it‘s in South Carolina! That explains why I couldn‘t remember where it was 😂 (It‘s gorgeous, and is by Jane Dedecker. Her mother copied ED‘s dress (displayed in her home/museum) for her model.) 4mo
vivastory @Aimeesue I've always wanted to visit the museum! Hope to visit New England again some point the next couple of years & will definitely be stopping by there 4mo
Aimeesue @vivastory It‘s a very cool experience. I did the ED museum, Melville‘s Arrowhead, and Edith Wharton‘s The Mount on one of my last trips home, even though I‘d been to them at various times through school. It was fun to do them all together. 4mo
vivastory @Aimeesue I have all 3 on my to do list, esp. Dickinson Museum & Melville's Arrowhead, Moby Dick is one of my favorite books of all-time. 💙 4mo
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TheSpineView Excellent poem!😍 1y
dabbe I –– love –– Emily––! ❣️ 1y
IndoorDame @dabbe same!!! 1y
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TheSpineView Great poem 1y
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dabbe “I never saw a moor
I never saw the sea
Yet know I how the heather looks
And what a wave must be.“

My mother's favorite poem of all time. #loveemilyd
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The Complete Poems | Emily Dickinson
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An excerpt from poem 414. I just encountered it for the first time, as I'm making my way through the complete poetry. It's readily available if you Google & I definitely recommend reading it. It's one of the more remarkable poems by her that I wasn't familiar with & I think it deserves a wider audience.

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TheSpineView Excellent choice!🤩 2y
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TheSpineView Beautiful poem! Dickinson never fails to impress. ❤ 2y
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“Myself was formed—a carpenter—
An unpretending time
My Plane—and I, together wrought
Before a Builder came—

To measure our attainments—
Had we the Art of Boards
Sufficiently developed—He‘d hire us
At Halves—

My Tools took Human—Faces—
The Bench, where we had toiled—
Against the Man—persuaded—
We—Temples build—I said—“

Remembering Emily Dickinson on her birthday.

batsy Emily 💜 2y
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#GratefulHarvest
Here‘s a beautiful #Moon poem from Emily Dickinson. Enjoy.

TheSpineView Beautiful poem! 💙 2y
Eggs Simply beautiful 🌝📚👍🏼 2y
BiblioLitten Beautiful poem🤩 2y
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Dickinson wrote a lot of poems - there are 1775 in this collection. This collection is comprehensive and well organized. Many of her early poems are very girly things about flowers and bees, but you can see her mature as both a person and a poet as you progress through the collection. Like any artist, there is a lot of so-so stuff here, a lot of pretty good, and a few amazing. Overall, 4⭐️

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TheSpineView Great choice! 3y
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WHO never wanted,—maddest joy
Remains to him unknown;
The banquet of abstemiousness
Surpasses that of wine.

Within its hope, though yet ungrasped 5
Desire‘s perfect goal,
No nearer, lest reality
Should disenthrall thy soul.

#desire #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

Photo: Transcript of Emily Dickinson‘s
“Who Never Wanted Maddest Joy”
Amherst College Digital Archives

TheSpineView Love her poetry! Great choice! 🤩 3y
IndoorDame @TheSpineView she‘s one of my favorite poets! 3y
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TrishB Beautiful ♥️ 4y
batsy Emily 💜 4y
TheSpineView True!😍😍😍 4y
Darthdad I hadn‘t read her poetry until watching the show Dickinson on Apple+. I‘ve really grown fond of her work. The show is exceptional as well 4y
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Finding it hard to read this week - so switching to AppleTV instead - just starting in on Dickinson 🤞🏼

Mitch Mmmmm...... I don‘t think I‘ll be watching episode 2 😩 4y
Chrissyreadit I love your decor! 4y
Mitch @Chrissyreadit oh thank you honey xx 4y
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It‘s Emily Dickinson again! 😊

#poetrymatters #gown

TheSpineView You can't go wrong with her!❤ 4y
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TheSpineView Great choice! You can never go wrong with Dickinson! 😍 4y
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#poetrymattets May 10: Mother

Nature, The Gentlest Mother by Emily Dickinson

muscogulus I like the use of “infiniter,” which would seem obtuse in a lesser poet. 4y
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#poetrymatters March 28: gale

“Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson, included in the tagged

TheSpineView 💜💜💜 4y
CBee One of my favorite poems in the world ❤️ 4y
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BlameJennyJane My favorite poem ❤️🧡 4y
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I NEVER saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.
I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.
?a good morning to you all?
FRIDAY! #poetry
My poem this morning ?

jewright Love Emily Dickinson! 4y
TheBookHippie @jewright my adult daughters favorite and I do enjoy her as well. Spot on sometimes for my day! 4y
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TheSpineView Nice!😍😍😍 4y
Eggs Thanks, a classic Emily! @TheSpineView 4y
TheSpineView @Eggs Yes. Love her poems!😊 4y
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Trust Emily Dickinson to flip the switch, as it were, and describe a #rayoflight as oppressive, "like the heft of cathedral tunes" ?

#MOvember @Cinfhen

Cathythoughts Beautiful poem ... thanks for sharing .. good to read poetry 👍🏻❤️ 4y
TrishB Lovely post ❤️ 4y
Cinfhen Beautiful 4y
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batsy @Cathythoughts @TrishB @Cinfhen Dickinson is like fresh air 💜 4y
Lindy Love this. 😊 4y
batsy @Lindy 😘 4y
Centique I needed to see this, this morning. 😍💕 4y
batsy @Centique A dose of poetry is just what is needed sometimes 💜 4y
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‘A Shade upon the mind there passes‘

A Shade upon the mind there passes
As when on Noon
A Cloud the mighty Sun encloses
Remembering

That some there be too numb to notice
Oh God
Why give if Thou must take away
The Loved?

(Portrayal of Emily Dickinson by Cynthia Nixon).

#poetrymatters #shade

BarbaraBB That illustration 😍 5y
Cathythoughts That picture ♥️👍🏻amazing 5y
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”You cannot put a Fire out”

You cannot put a Fire out —
A Thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a Fan —
Upon the slowest Night —

You cannot fold a Flood —
And put it in a Drawer —
Because the Winds would find it out —
And tell your Cedar Floor —

By Emily Dickinson.

#poetrymatters #fire

Watercolour painting of Emily Dickinson by Fabrizio Cassetta.

batsy Oh, that's beautiful 💖 5y
lover.of.the.classics I love the poem AND the painting! 5y
TrishB Lovely ❤️ 5y
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#poetrymatters #charm

(‘A Woman With A Veil‘ painting by Clara Klinghoffer).

TrishB Lovely graphic 💕 5y
Cathythoughts Love this 👍🏻♥️ 5y
batsy Love 💜 5y
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