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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Four: Time and Eternity

1. One dignity delays for all
2. Delayed till she had ceased to know
3. Departed to the judgment
4. Safe in their alabaster chambers
5. On this long storm the rainbow rose
6. My cocoon tightens, colors tease
7. Exultation is the going
8. Look back on time with kindly eyes
9. A train went through a burial gate
10. I died for beauty, but was scarce
11. How many times these low feet staggered
12. I like a look of agony
13. That short, potential stir
14. I went to thank her
15. I ’ve seen a dying eye
16. The clouds their backs together laid
17. I never saw a moor
18. God permits industrious angels
19. To know just how he suffered would be dear
20. The last night that she lived
21. Not in this world to see his face
22. The bustle in a house
23. I reason, earth is short
24. Afraid? Of whom am I afraid?
25. The sun kept setting, setting still
26. Two swimmers wrestled on the spar
27. Because I could not stop for Death
28. She went as quiet as the dew
29. At last to be identified!
30. Except to heaven, she is nought
31. Death is a dialogue between
32. It was too late for man
33. When I was small, a woman died
34. The daisy follows soft the sun
35. No rack can torture me
36. I lost a world the other day
37. If I should n’t be alive
38. Sleep is supposed to be
39. I shall know why, when time is over
40. I never lost as much but twice
41. Let down the bars, O Death!
42. Going to heaven!
43. At least to pray is left, is left
44. Step lightly on this narrow spot!
45. Morns like these we parted
46. A death-blow is a life-blow to some
47. I read my sentence steadily
48. I have not told my garden yet
49. They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars
50. The only ghost I ever saw
51. Some, too fragile for winter winds
52. As by the dead we love to sit
53. Death sets a thing significant
54. I went to heaven
55. Their height in heaven comforts not
56. There is a shame of nobleness
57. A triumph may be of several kinds
58. Pompless no life can pass away
59. I noticed people disappeared
60. I had no cause to be awake
61. If anybody’s friend be dead
62. Our journey had advanced
63. Ample make this bed
64. On such a night, or such a night
65. Essential oils are wrung
66. I lived on dread; to those who know
67. If I should die
68. Her final summer was it
69. One need not be a chamber to be haunted
70. She died,—this was the way she died
71. Wait till the majesty of Death
72. Went up a year this evening!
73. Taken from men this morning
74. What inn is this
75. It was not death, for I stood up
76. I should not dare to leave my friend
77. Great streets of silence led away
78. A throe upon the features
79. Of tribulation these are they
80. I think just how my shape will rise
81. After a hundred years
82. Lay this laurel on the one
83. This world is not conclusion
84. We learn in the retreating
85. They say that ‘time assuages’
86. We cover thee, sweet face
87. That is solemn we have ended
88. The stimulus, beyond the grave
89. Given in marriage unto thee
90. That such have died enables us
91. They won’t frown always—some sweet day
92. ’T is an honorable thought
93. The distance that the dead have gone
94. How dare the robins sing
95. Death is like the insect
96. ’T is sunrise, little maid, hast thou
97. Each that we lose takes part of us
98. Not any higher stands the grave
99. As far from pity as complaint
100. ’T is whiter than an Indian pipe
101. She laid her docile crescent down
102. Bless God, he went as soldiers
103. Immortal is an ample word
104. Where every bird is bold to go
105. The grave my little cottage is
106. This was in the white of the year
107. Sweet hours have perished here
108. Me! Come! My dazzled face
109. From use she wandered now a year
110. I wish I knew that woman’s name
111. Bereaved of all, I went abroad
112. I felt a funeral in my brain
113. I meant to find her when I came
114. I sing to use the waiting
115. A sickness of this world it most occasions
116. Superfluous were the sun
117. So proud she was to die
118. Tie the strings to my life, my Lord
119. The dying need but little, dear
120. There ’s something quieter than sleep
121. The soul should always stand ajar
122. Three weeks passed since I had seen her
123. I breathed enough to learn the trick
124. I wonder if the sepulchre
125. If tolling bell I ask the cause
126. If I may have it when it ’s dead
127. Before the ice is in the pools
128. I heard a fly buzz when I died
129. Adrift! A little boat adrift!
130. There’s been a death in the opposite house
131. We never know we go,—when we are going
132. It struck me every day
133. Water is taught by thirst
134. We thirst at first,—’t is Nature’s act
135. A clock stopped—not the mantel’s
136. All overgrown by cunning moss
137. A toad can die of light!
138. Far from love the Heavenly Father
139. A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
140. ’T was just this time last year I died
141. On this wondrous sea