6IV. Rouge gagne
315XXII. "Upon the gallows hung a wretch"
7V. "Glee! the storm is over"
316XXIII. The Lost Thought
8VI. "If I can stop one heart from breaking"
317XXIV. Reticence
9VII. Almost
318XXV. With Flowers
10VIII. "A wounded deer leaps highest"
319XXVI. "The farthest thunder that I heard"
11IX. "The heart asks pleasure first"
320XXVII. "On the bleakness of my lot"
12X. In a Library
321XXVIII. Contrast
13XI. "Much madness is divinest sense"
322XXIX. Friends
14XII. "I asked no other thing"
323XXX. Fire
15XIII. Exclusion
324XXXI. A Man
16XIV. The Secret
325XXXII. Ventures
17XV. The Lonely House
326XXXIII. Griefs
18XVI. "To fight aloud is very brave"
327XXXIV. "I have a king who does not speak"
19XVII. Dawn
328XXXV. Disenchantment
20XVIII. The Book of Martyrs
329XXXVI. Lost Faith
21XIX. The Mystery of Pain
330XXXVII. Lost Joy
22XX. "I taste a liquor never brewed"
331XXXVIII. "I worked for chaff, and earning wheat"
23XXI. A Book
332XXXIX. "Life, and Death, and Giants"
24XXII. "I had no time to hate, because"
333XL. Alpine Glow
25XXIII Unreturning
334XLI. Remembrance
26XXIV. Whether my bark went down at sea"
335XLII. "To hang our head ostensibly"
27XXV. "Belshazzar had a letter"
336XLIII. The Brain
28XXVI. "The brain within its groove"
337XLIV. "The bone that has no marrow"
29BOOK II.—LOVE.
338XLV. The Past
30I. Mine
339XLVI. "To help our bleaker parts"
31II. Bequest
340XLVII. "What soft, cherubic creatures"
32III. "Alter? When the hills do"
341XLVIII. Desire
33IV. Suspense
342XLIX. Philosophy
34V. Surrender
343L. Power
35VI. "If you were coming in the fall"
344LI. "A modest lot, a fame petite"
36VII. With a Flower
345LII "Is bliss, then, such abyss "
37VIII. Proof
346LII. Experience
38IX. “Have you got a brook in your little heart?”
347LIV. Thanksgiving Day
39X. Transplanted
348LV. Childish Griefs
40XI. The Outlet
349BOOK II. LOVE
41XII. In Vain
350I. Consecration
42XIII Renunciation
351II. Love's Humility
43XIV. Love's Baptism
352III. Love
44XV. Resurrection
353IV. Satisfied
45XVI. Apocalypse
354V. With a Flower
46XVII. The Wife
355VI. Song
47XVIII. Apotheosis
356VII. Loyalty
48BOOK III.—NATURE
357VIII. "To lose thee, sweeter than to gain"
49I. “New feet within my garden go”
358IX. "Poor little heart I"
50II. May-Flower
359X. Forgotten
51III. Why?
360XI. "I 've got an arrow here"
52IV. “Perhaps you ’d like to buy a flower”
361XII. The Master
53V. “The pedigree of honey”
362XIII. "Heart, we will forget him!"
54VI. A Service of Song
363XIV. "Father, I bring thee not myself"
55VII. “The bee is not afraid of me”
364XV. "We outgrow love, like other things"
56VIII. Summer's Armies
365XVI. "Not with a club the heart is broken"
57IX. The Grass
366XVII. Who?
58X. "A little road not made of man"
367XVIII. "He touched me, so I live to know"
59XI. Summer Shower
368XIX. Dreams
60XII. Psalm of the Day
369XX. Numen Lumen
61XIII. The Sea of Sunset
370XXI. Longing
62XIV. Purple Clover
371XXII. Wedded
63XV. The Bee
372BOOK III. NATURE
64XVI. "Presentiment is that long shadow"
373I. Nature's Changes
65XVII. "As children bid the guest good-night"
374II. The Tulip
66XVIII. "Angels in the early morning"
375III. "A light exists in spring"
67XIX. "So bashful when I spied her"
376IV. The Waking Year
68XX. Two Worlds
377V. To March
69XXI. The Mountain
378VI. March
70XXII. A Day
379VII. Dawn
71XXIII. "The butterfly's assumption-gown"
380VIII. "A murmur in the trees to note"
72XXIV. The Wind
381IX. "Morning is the place for dew"
73XXV. Death and Life
382X. "To my quick ears the leaves conferred"
74XXVI. "'T was later when the summer went"
383XI. A Rose
75XXVII. Indian Summer
384XII. "High from the earth I heard a bird"
76XXVIII. Autumn
385XIII. Cobwebs
77XXIX. Beclouded
386XIV. A Well
78XXX. The Hemlock
387XV. "To make a prairie it takes a clover"
79XXXI. "There's a certain slant of light"
388XVI. The Wind
80BOOK IV. TIME AND ETERNITY
389XVII. "A dew sufficed itself"
81I. "One dignity delays for all"
390XVIII. The Woodpecker
82II. Too late
391XIX. A Snake
83III. Astra Castra
392XX. "Could I but ride indefinite"
84IV. "Safe in their alabaster chambers"
393XXI. The Moon
85V. "On this long storm the rainbow rose"
394XXII. The Bat
86VI. From the Chrysalis
395XXIII. The Balloon
87VII. Setting Sail
396XXIV. Evening
88VIII. "Look back on time with kindly eyes"
397XXV. Cocoon
89IX. "A train went through a burial gate"
398XXVI. Sunset
90X. "I died for beauty, but was scarce"
399XXVII. Aurora
91XI. Troubled about many things
400XXVIII. The Coming of Night
92XII. Real
401XXIX. Aftermath
93XIII. The Funeral
402BOOK IV. TIME AND ETERNITY
94XIV. "I went to thank her"
403I. "This world is not conclusion"
95XV. "I've seen a dying eye"
404II. "We learn in the retreating"
96XVI. Refuge
405III. "They say that 'time assuages'"
97XVII. "I never saw a moor"
406IV. "We cover thee, sweet face"
98XVIII. Playmates
407V. Ending
99XIX. "To know just how he suffered"
408VI. "The stimulus, beyond the grave"
100XX. "The last night that she lived"
409VII. "Given in marriage unto thee"
101XXI. The First Lesson
410VIII. "That such have died enables us"
102XXII. "The bustle in the house"
411IX. "They won't frown always, some sweet day"
103XXIII. "I reason, earth is short"
412X. Immortality
104XXIV. "Afraid? Of whom am I afraid?"
413XI. " The distance that the dead have gone"
105XXV. Dying
414XII. "How dare the robins sing"
106XXVI. "Two swimmers wrestled on a spar"
415XIII. Deat
107XXVII. The Chariot
416XIV. Unwarned
108XXVIII. "She went as quiet as the dew"
417XV. "Each that we lose takes part of us"
109XXIX. Resurgam
418XVI. "Not any higher stands the grave"
110XXX. "Except to heave she is nought"
419XVII. Asleep
111XXXI. "Death is a dialogue between"
420XVIII. The Spirit
112XXXII. "It was too late for man"
421XIX. The Monument
113XXXIII. Along the Potomac
422XX. "Bless God, he went as soldiers"
114XXXIV. "The daisy follows soft the Sun"
423XXI. "Immortal is an ample word"
115XXXV. Emancipation
424XXII. "Where every bird is bold to go"
116XXXVI. Lost
425XXIII. "The grave my little cottage is"
117XXXVII. "If I shouldn't be alive"
426XXIV. "This was in the white of the year"
118XXXVIII. "Sleep is supposed to be"
427XXV. "Sweet hours have perished here"
119XXXIX. "I shall know why when time is over"
428XXVI. "Me! Come! My dazzled face"
120XL. "I never lost as much but twice"
429XXVII. Invisible
121PREFACE
430XXVIII. "I wish I knew that woman's name"
122BOOK I.—LIFE
431XXIX. Trying to Forget
123I. "I'm nobody! Who are you?"
432XXX. "I felt a funeral in my brain"
124II. "I bring an unaccustomed wine"
433XXXI. "I meant to find her when I came"
125III. "The nearest dream recedes unrealized"
434XXXII. Waiting
126IV. "We play at paste"
435XXXIII. "A sickness of this world it most occasions"
127V. "I found the phrase to every thought"
436XXXIV. "Superfluous were the sun"
128VI. Hope
437XXXV. "So proud she was to die"
129VII. The White Heat
438XXXVI. Farewell
130VIII. Triumphant
439XXXVII. "The dying need but little, dear"
131IX. The Test
440XXXVIII. Dead
132X. Escape
441XXXIX. "The soul should always stand ajar"
133XI. Compensation
442XL. "Three weeks passed since I had seen her"
134XII. The Martyrs
443XLI. "I breathed enough to learn the trick"
135XIII. A Prayer
444XLII. "I wonder if the sepulchre"
136XIV. "The thought beneath so slight a film"
445XLIII. Joy in Death
137XV. "The soul unto itself"
446XLIV. "If I may have it when it's dead"
138XVI. "Surgeons must be very careful"
447XLV. "Before the ice is in the poo's"
139XVII. The Railway Train
448XLVI. Dying
140XVIII. The Show
449XLVII. "Adrift! A little boat adrift!"
141XIX. "Delight becomes pictorial"
450XLVIII. "There's been a death in the opposite house"
142XX. "A thought went up my mind to-day"
451XLIX. "We never know we go, when we are going"
143XXI. "Is Heaven a physician?"
452L. The Soul's Storm
144XXII. The Return
453LI. "Water is taught by thirst"
145XXIII. "A poor torn heart, a tattered heart"
454LII. Thirst
146XXIV. Too Much
455LIII. "A clock stopped not the mantel's"
147XXV. Shipwreck
456LIV. Charlotte Bronte's Grave
148XXVI. "Victory comes late"
457LV. "A toad can die of light!"
149XXVII. Enough
458LVI. "Far from love the Heavenly Father"
150XXVIII. "Experiment to me"
459LVII. Sleeping
151XXIX. My Country's Wardrobe
460LVIII. Retrospect
152XXX. "Faith is a fine invention"
461LIX. Eternity
153XXXI. "Except the heaven had come so near"
462THE PREFACE.
154XXXII. "Portraits are to daily faces"
463TO SUE.
155XXXIII. The Duel
464I.
156XXXIV. "A shady friend for torrid days"
465II.
157XXXV. The Goal
466III.
158XXXVI. Sight
467IV.
159XXXVII. "Talk with prudence to a beggar"
468V.
160XXXVIII. The Preacher
469VI.
161XXXIX. "Good night! which put the candle out?"
470VII.
162XL. "When I hoped I feared"
471VIII.
163XLI. Deed
472IX.
164XLII. Time's Lesson
473X.
165XLIII. Remorse
474XI.
166XLIV. The Shelter
475XII.
167XLV. "Undue significance a starving man attaches"
476XIII.
168XLVI. "Heart not so heavy as mine"
477XIV.
169XLVII. "I many times thought peace had come"
478XV.
170XLVIII. "Unto my books so good to turn"
479XVI.
171XLIX. "This merit hath the worst"
480XVII.
172L. Hunger
481XVIII.
173LI. "I gained it so"
482XIX.
174LII. "To learn to transport by the pain"
483XX.
175LIII. Returning
484XXI.
176LIV. Prayer
485XXII.
177LV. "I know that he exists"
486XXIII.
178LVI. Melodies Unheard
487XXIV.
179LVII. Called Back
488XXV.
180BOOK II.—LOVE.
489XXVI.
181I. Choice
490XXVII.
182II. "I have no life but this"
491XXVIII.
183III. "Your riches taught me poverty"
492XXIX.
184IV. The Contract
493XXX.
185V. The Letter
494XXXI.
186VI. "The way I read a letter's this"
495XXXII.
187VII. "Wild nights! Wild nights!"
496XXXIII.
188VIII. At Home
497XXXIV.
189IX. Possession
498XXXV.
190X. "A charm invests a face"
499XXXVI.
191XI. The Lovers
500XXXVII.
192XII. "In lands I never saw, they say"
501XXXVIII.
193XIII. "The moon is distant from the sea"
502XXXIX.
194XIV. "He put the belt around my life"
503XL.
195XV. The Lost Jewel
504XLI.
196XVI. "What if I say I shall not wait?"
505XLII.
197BOOK III. NATURE.
506XLIII.
198I. Mother Nature
507XLIV.
199II. Out of the Morning
508XLV.
200III. "At half-past three a single bird"
509XLVI.
201IV. Day's Parlor
510XLVII.
202V. The Sun's Wooing
511XLVIII.
203VI. The Robin
512XLIX.
204VII. The Butterfly's Day
513L.
205VIII. The Bluebird
514LI.
206IX. April
515LII.
207X. The Sleeping Flowers
516LIII.
208XI. My Rose
517LIV.
209XII. The Oriole's Secret
518LV.
210XIII. The Oriole
519LVI.
211XIV. In Shadow
520LVII.
212XV. The Humming-Bird
521LVIII.
213XVI. Secrets
522LIX.
214XVII. "Who robbed the woods?"
523LX.
215XVIII. Two Voyagers
524LXI.
216XIX. By the Sea
525LXII.
217XX. Old-Fashioned
526LXIII.
218XXI. A Tempest
527LXIV.
219XXII. The Sea
528LXV.
220XXIII. In the Garden
529LXVI.
221XXIV. The Snake
530LXVII.
222XXV. The Mushroom
531LXVIII.
223XXVI. The Storm
532LXIX.
224XXVII. The Spider
533LXX.
225XXVIII. "I know a place where summer strives"
534LXXI.
226XXIX. "The one that could repeat the summer day"
535LXXII.
227XXX. The Wind's Visit
536LXXIII.
228XXXI. "Nature rarer uses yellow"
537LXXIV.
229XXXII. Gossip
538LXXV.
230XXXIII. Simplicity
539LXXVI.
231XXXIV. Storm
540LXXVII.
232XXXV. The Rat
541LXXVIII.
233XXXVI. "Frequently the woods are pink"
542LXXIX.
234XXXVII. A Thunder-Storm
543LXXX.
235XXXVIII. With Flowers
544LXXXI.
236XXXIX. Sunset
545LXXXII.
237XL. "She sweeps with many-colored brooms"
546LXXXIII.
238XLI. "Like mighty footlights burned the red"
547LXXXIV.
239XLII. Problems
548LXXXV.
240XLIII. The Juggler of Day
549LXXXVI.
241XLIV. My Cricket
550LXXXVII.
242XLV. "As imperceptibly as grief"
551LXXXVIII.
243XLVI. "It can't be summer,—that got through"
552LXXXIX.
244XLVII. Summer's Obsequies
553XC.
245XLVIII. Fringed Gentian
554XCI.
246XLIX. November
555XCII.
247L. The Snow
556XCIII.
248LI. The Blue Jay
557XCIV.
249BOOK IV. — TIME AND ETERNITY.
558XCV.
250I. "Let down the bars, O Death!"
559XCVI.
251II. "Going to heaven!"
560XCVII.
252III. "At least to pray is left, is left"
561XCVIII.
253IV. Epitaph
562XCIX.
254V. "Morns like these we parted"
563C.
255VI. "A death-blow is a life-blow to some"
564CI.
256VII. "I read my sentence steadily"
565CII.
257VIII. "I have not told my garden yet"
566CIII.
258IX. The Battle-Field
567CIV.
259X. "The only ghost I ever saw"
568CV.
260XI. "Some, too fragile for winter winds"
569CVI.
261XII. "As by the dead we love to sit"
570CVII.
262XIII. Memorials
571CVIII.
263XIV. "I went to heaven"
572CIX.
264XV. "Their height in heaven comforts not"
573CX.
265XVI. "There is a shame of nobleness"
574CXI.
266XVII. Triumph
575CXII.
267XVIII. "Pompless no life can pass away"
576CXIII.
268XIX. "I noticed people disappeared"
577CXIV.
269XX. Following
578CXV.
270XXI. "If anybody's friend be dead"
579CXVI.
271XXII. The Journey
580CXVII.
272XXIII. A Country Burial
581CXVIII.
273XXIV. Going
582CXIX.
274XXV. "Essential oils are wrung"
583CXX.
275XXVI. "I lived on dread; to those who know"
584CXXI.
276XXVII. "If I should die"
585CXXII.
277XXVIII. At Length
586CXXIII.
278XXIX. Ghosts
587CXXIV.
279XXX. Vanished
588CXXV.
280XXXI. Precedence
589CXXVI.
281XXXII. Gone
590CXXVII.
282XXXIII. Requiem
591CXXVIII.
283XXXIV. "What inn is this?"
592CXXIX.
284XXXV. "It was not death, for I stood up"
593CXXX.
285XXXVI. Till the End
594CXXXI.
286XXXVII. Void
595CXXXII.
287XXXVIII. "A throe upon the features"
596CXXXIII.
288XXXIX. Saved
597CXXXIV.
289XL. "I think just how my shape will rise"
598CXXXV.
290XLI. The Forgotten Grave
599CXXXVI.
291XLII. "Lay this laurel on the one"
600CXXXVII.
292PREFACE.
601CXXXVIII.
293BOOK I. LIFE
602CXXXIX.
294I. Real Riches
603CXL.
295II. Superiority to Fate
604CXLI.
296III. Hope
605CXLII.
297IV. Forbidden Fruit (1)
606PART I LIFE
298V. Forbidden Fruit (2)
607CHAPTER I ANCESTRY
299VI. A Word
608CHAPTER II CHILDHOOD
300VII. "To venerate the simple days"
609CHAPTER III SCHOOL DAYS
301VIII. Life's Trades
610CHAPTER IV SOCIAL LIFE AT AMHERST SEVENTY YEARS AGO 1848 — 1853-54
302IX. "Drowning is not so pitiful"
611CHAPTER V "THE END OF PEACE" 1853—55
303X. "How still the bells in steeples stand"
612CHAPTER VI "A HEDGE AWAY" 1856—62
304XI. "If the foolish call them 'flowers'"
613CHAPTER VII LATER YEARS WITH BOOKS AND FRIENDS
305XII. A Syllable
614CHAPTER VIII HER RELIGION
306XIII. Parting
615PART II LETTERS OF EMILY DICKINSON 1845—1886: BABY (pt. 1)
307XIV. Aspiration
616PART II LETTERS OF EMILY DICKINSON 1845—1886: BABY (pt. 2)
308XV. The Inevitable
617PART II LETTERS OF EMILY DICKINSON 1845—1886: BABY (pt. 3)
309XVI. A Book
618PART II LETTERS OF EMILY DICKINSON 1845—1886: BABY (pt. 4)
