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Emily Dickinson
American
Poet
Born:
Dec 10
,
1830
Died:
May 15
,
1886
Life
Love
Love Is
Me
Mother
You
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I'm nobody, who are you?
Emily Dickinson
You
Nobody
Who
I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
Emily Dickinson
You
Mother
Hurry
Troubled
Never
Had
Suppose
Whom
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson
Book
Poetry
Take
Like
Prancing
Nor
Any
Us
Lands
Page
Away
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson
Great
Feeling
Sit
Pain
Nerves
Like
Formal
After
Tombs
The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily Dickinson
Sky
Brain
Than
Wider
I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
Emily Dickinson
Age
Witness
Decision
Year
Doubt
Final
Indeed
Admirers
Shall
Crowds
Perfect
Delight
Reach
Make
Bidding
How
Am
Very
Expect
Handsome
Suspense
While
Them
Then
Await
Amherst
Growing
Fast
Belle
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
Emily Dickinson
Finite
Fail
Venture
Infinite
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Emily Dickinson
Words
Dust
Frame
Drank
Ate
Spirit
More
He
Knew
Robust
His
Nor
Precious
Grew
Poor
Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
Emily Dickinson
Nature
Mother
Will
Our
She
Eldest
Harm
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
Emily Dickinson
God
Faith
Me
Song
Bird
Sum
Those
Only
Cage
Him
Makes
Sisters
Suspected
Woods
Which
Far
Flight
Shrewd
Dainty
Things
In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
Emily Dickinson
Life
Broken
Stumble
Hopes
Likes
Well
Sure
Pile
Lest
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Emily Dickinson
Better
Hammer
Than
Anvil
I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.
Emily Dickinson
Eyes
Hair
Guest
Wren
Small
Had
Glass
Like
Am
Leaves
Bold
Now
Portrait
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
Emily Dickinson
Me
Mother
Care
Father
Mind
Thought
Fears
Sister
Busy
Too
Books
Brother
Brother And Sister
He
Read
Because
Does
His
Them
Notice
Many
Buys
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