Emily Dickinson Poems

Everyone seems to have their favorite Emily Dickinson poems, but she wrote far more than she is often remembered for. We hope you enjoy exploring the range of short and longer poems that the poet penned in her lifetime (often on the back of chocolate wrappers—which we highly approve!).

I. Life

I. Success

II. Our share of night to bear

III. Rouge et Noir

IV. Rouge Gagne

V. Glee! The great storm is over!

VI. If I can stop one heart from breaking

VII. Almost!

VIII. A wounded deer leaps highest

IX. The heart asks pleasure first

X. In a Library

XI. Much madness is divinest sense

XII. I asked no other thing

XIII. Exclusion

XIV. The Secret

XV. The Lonely House

XVI. To fight aloud is very brave

XVII. Dawn

XVIII. The Book of Martyrs

XIX. The Mystery of Pain

XX. I taste a liquor never brewed

XXI. A Book

XXII. I had no time to hate

XXIII. Unreturning

XXIV. Whether my bark went down at sea

XXV. Belshazzar had a letter

XXVI. The brain within its groove

Hope Is the Thing With Feathers

 

II. Life (Third Series)

VI. A Word Is Dead

XIII. Parting

XIV. Aspiration

XV. While I Was Fearing It, It Came

XVI. There Is No Frigate Like a Book

XIX. I Had a Guinea Golden

XX. From All the Jails the Boys and Girls

XXIV. The Reticent Volcano Keeps

XXV. If Recollecting Were Forgetting

XXVI. The Farthest Thunder That I Heard

XXVIII. A Door Just Opened on a Street

XXIX. Are Friends Delight or Pain

XXXIII. I Measure Every Grief I Meet

XXXIV. I Have a King Who Does Not Speak

XLIII. The Brain

XLVIII. What Soft Cherubic Creatures

L. You Cannot Put a Fire Out

LIII. I Stepped From Plank To Plank

 

II. Love

I. Mine

II. Bequest

III. Alter? When the hills do

IV. Suspense

V. Surrender

VI. If you were coming in the fall

VII. With a flower

VIII. Proof

IX. Have you got a brook in your little heart

X. Transplanted

XI. The Outlet

XII. In Vain

XIII. Renunciation

XIV. Love’s Baptism

XV. Resurrection

XVI. Apocalypse

 

II. Love (Second Series)

II. I Have No Life But This

III. Your Riches Taught Me Poverty

IV. I Gave Myself To Him

V. Going to Him

VII. Wild nights!

XI. The Lovers

XIII. The Moon Is Distant From the Sea

XV. The Lost Jewel

XVI. What if I Say I Shall Not Wait

 

III. Nature

I. New Feet Within My Garden Go

II. Mayflower

III. Why?

IV. Perhaps You’d Like to Buy a Flower

V. The Pedigree of Honey

VI. Some Keep the Sabbath by Going to Church

VII. The Bee is Not Afraid of Me

IX. The Grass So Little Has to Do

XI. A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree

XII. A Something in a Summer’s Day

XIII. The Sea of Sunset

XIV. Purple Clover

XVIII. Angels in the Early Morning

XIX. So Bashful When I Spied Her

XX. It Makes No Difference Abroad

XXI. The Mountain Sat Upon the Plain

XXII. I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose

XXV. Apparently With No Surprise

XXVII. Indian Summer

XXVIII. Autumn

XXIX. Beclouded

XXXI. There’s A Certain Slant of Light

 

III. Nature (Second Series)

I. Nature the Gentlest Mother

II. Out of the Morning

III. At Half-Past Three

V. The Sun’s Wooing

VI. The Robin

IX. April

XI. My Rose

XII. The Orilole’s Secret

XIII. The Oriole

XIV. I Dreaded That First Robin So

XVI. The Skies Can’t Keep Their Secret

XVII. Who Robbed the Woods

XVIII. Two Butterflies Went Out At Noon

XIX. By the Sea

XX. A Tempest

XXIV. The Snake

XXVI. There Came a Wind Like A Bugle

XXVII. A Spider

XXVIII. I Know A Place Where Summer Strives

XXIX. The One That Could Repeat the Summer Day

XXX. The Wind’s Visit

XXXI. Nature Rarer Uses Yellow

XXXIII. Simplicity

XXXVI. Frequently the Woods Are Pink

XL. She Sweeps With Many-Colored Brooms

XLII. Bring Me the Sunset

XLIV. Further in Summer

XLV. As Imperceptibly As Grief

XLVII. Summer’s Obsequies

XLIX. Besides the Autumn Poets Sing

L. The Snow

 

IV. Time and Eternity

IV. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers

VI. My Cocoon Tightens; Colors Tease

VII. Setting Sail

VIII. Look Back on Time

IX. A Train Went Through

X. I Died for Love

XI. How Many Times

XII. I Like a Look of Agony

XIV. I Went to Thank Her

XV. I’ve Seen a Dying Eye

XVII. I Never Saw a Moor

XVIII. Playmates

XIX. To Know Just How He Suffered

XX. The Last Night That She Lived

XXII. The Bustle of a House

XXIII. I Reason, Earth is Short

XXV. The Sun Kept Setting

XXVII. Because I Could Not Stop For Death

XXX. Except To Heaven She Is Nought

XXXI. Death Is a Dialogue

XXXV. No Rack Can Torture Me

XXXVI. I Lost a World the Other Day

XXXVII. If I Shouldn’t Be Alive

XXXVIII. Sleep Is Supposed To Be

XXXIX. I Shall Know When Time Is Over

 

IV. Time and Eternity (Second Series)

I. Let Down The Bars, O Death!

II. Going to Heaven

III. At Least to Pray Is Left

VII. I Read My Sentence Steadily

VIII. I Have Not Told My Garden Yet

IX. They Dropped Like Flakes

X. The Only Ghost I Ever Saw

XXI. If Anybody’s Friend Be Dead

XXII. The Journey

XXIV. On Such a Night

XXXIV. What Inn Is This

 

 

Nature Is What We See

Heaven Is What I Cannot Reach

A Bird Came Down the Walk

 

A Dying Tiger Moaned for a Drink

I’m Nobody, Who Are You?

A Clock Stopped- Not the Mantel’s

A Light Exists in Spring

“Why Do I Love” You, Sir?

We hope you enjoy these Emily Dickinson poems!

More Emily Dickinson Resources

A Pencil for Emily Dickinson (fun post on visiting the estate and cemetary in Amherst)

Take Your Poet to Work-Emily Dickinson (includes cut-n-color poet)

The Yellow Wall-Paper Graphic Novel Book Club—The Thing With Feathers

The Yellow Wall-Paper Graphic Novel Book Club—Tell It Slant

The Yellow Wall-Paper Graphic Novel Book Club—Divinest Sense