Poems by Emily Dickinson

3 Poems by Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886)

All the letters I can write

Are not fair as this –

Syllables of Velvet –

Sentences of Plush,

Depths of Ruby, undrained,

Hid, Lip, for Thee –

Play it were a Humming Bird –

And just sipped – me –

(1862)

This is my letter to the World

That never wrote to Me –

The simple News that Nature told,
with tender Majesty.
Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see –
For love of Her – Sweet – countrymen –
Judge tenderly – of Me

(1862)

This was a Poet – It is That

Distills amazing sense

From ordinary Meanings –

And Attar so immense

From the familiar species

That perished by the Door –

We wonder it was not Ourselves

Arrested it – before –

Of Pictures, the Discloser –

The Poet – it is He –

Entitles Us – by Contrast –

To ceaseless Poverty К

Of Portion – so unconscious –

The Robbing – could not harm –

Himself – to Him – a Fortune –

Exterior – to Time –

(ca. 1862)