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It sounded as if the streets were running,
And then the streets stood still.
Eclipse was all we could see at the window,
And awe was all we could feel. (pages 102-103)

I’ll tell you how the sun rose,—
A ribbon at a time. (page 127)

If certain, when this life was out,
That yours and mine should be,
I’d toss it yonder like a rind,
And taste eternity. (pages 154-155)

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality. (page 200)

They say that “time assuages”,—
Time never did assuage;
An actual suffering strengthens,
As sinews do, with age. (page 233)

Death is the common right
Of toads and men. (pages 257-258)

To be alive is power,
Existence in itself. (page 266)

That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love. (page 312)

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Emily Dickinson’s poems were first published between 1890 and 1891 in three
volumes, edited by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel L. Todd.
The Single Hound was edited by Dickinson’s niece Martha
Dickinson Bianchi, and published in 1914.

Published in 2003 by Barnes & Noble Classics with new Introduction,
Notes, Biography, Chronology, Inspired By, Comments & Questions,
and For Further Reading.

Note on Emily Dickinson, The World of Emily Dickinson and Her Poetry,
Inspired by Emily Dickinson’s Poetry, and Comments & Questions

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EMILY DICKINSON

Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, the second child of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson. Emily’s family was prosperous and well established in Amherst society: Her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson, was the founder of the prestigious Amherst Academy and a cofounder of Amherst College; her father, Edward, a lawyer and politician, was treasurer of Amherst College. The family lived in Amherst’s first brick building, the Homestead, built by Emily’s grandfather in 1813. Dickinson grew up in a strict religious household governed mainly by her father, who often censored her reading choices.

She attended Amherst Academy until she was seventeen, and then spent a year at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College). She studied a diversity of subjects, including botany and horticulture, which would become lifelong interests. Among writers she studied, she was particularly inspired by the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the novelist George Eliot. It was during her year at Mount Holyoke that she began to question, and even to voice dissension from, her father’s strict religious views.

In 1848, when she was eighteen years old, Dickinson left college and returned to the Homestead, where she lived for the rest of her life. She left home for only a few brief trips to Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Boston. It was during a trip to Philadelphia that she met her lifelong friend the Reverend Charles Wadsworth. In 1856 her brother, Austin, married Susan Huntington Gilbert, who would become one of Dickinson’s closest friends. The couple moved next door to the Homestead into a house built by Dickinson’s father, the Evergreens.

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