散文：A precious - moulde
A precious - mouldering pleasure - 'tis - To meet an Antique Book - In just the Dress his Century wore - A privilege - I think - His venerable Hand to take - And warming in our own - A passage back - or two - to make - To Times when he - was young -
散文：A darting fear - a pomp - a tear
A darting fear - a pomp - a tear - A waking on a morn To find that what one waked for, Inhales the different dawn. Everyday can be a new beginning, even if one may have fear for the unknown future and realizes that the past is but a pomp with a sad t
散文：As imperceptibly as Grief
As imperceptibly as Grief The Summer lapsed away - Too imperceptible at last To seem like Perfidy - A Quietness distilled As Twilight long begun, Or Nature spending with herself Sequestered Afternoon - The Dusk drew earlier in - The Morning foreign s
散文：A sepal, petal, and a thorn
A sepal, petal, and a thorn Upon a common summer's morn - A flask of Dew - A Bee or two - A Breeze - a caper in the trees - And I'm a Rose! A few lines and there is an idyllic summer image. She herself becomes the rose. In her is the sepal protecting
散文：A Thought went up my mind today
A Thought went up my mind today - That I have had before - But did not finish - some way back - I could not fix the Year - Nor where it went - nor why it came The second time to me - Nor definitely, what it was - Have I the Art to say - But somewhere
散文：A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree
A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree - Another - on the Roof - A Half a Dozen kissed the Eaves - And made the Gables laugh - A few went out to help the Brook That went to help the Sea - Myself Conjectured were they Pearls - What Necklace could be - The Dust
散文：Faith is a fine invention
Faith is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see - But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency. In this poem, Emily calls attention to the friction between science and religion. People only believe what they can see and use the invention of faith as
散文：Dear March - Come in
Dear March - Come in - How glad I am - I hoped for you before - Put down your Hat - You must have walked - How out of Breath you are - Dear March, Come right up the stairs with me - I have so much to tell - I got your Letter, and the Birds - The Mapl
散文：A Bird came down the Walk
A Bird came down the Walk - He did not know I saw - He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw, And then he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass - And then hopped side wise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass - He glanced with rapid eyes That
散文：The Grass so little has to do
The Grass so little has to do - A Sphere of simple Green - With only Butterflies to brood And Bees to entertain - And stir all day to pretty Tunes The Breezes fetch along - And hold the Sunshine in its lap And bow to everything - And thread the Dews,
散文：I can wade Grief
I can wade Grief - Whole Pools of it - I'm used to that - But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet - And I tip - drunken - Let no Pebble - smile - 'Twas the New Liquor - That was all! Power is only Pain - Stranded, thro' Discipline, Till Weights -
散文：Nobody knows this little Rose
Nobody knows this little Rose - It might a pilgrim be Did I not take it from the ways And lift it up to thee. Only a Bee will miss it - Only a Butterfly, Hastening from far journey - On its breast to lie - Only a Bird will wonder - Only a Breeze will
散文：If you were coming in the Fall
If you were coming in the Fall, I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile, and half a spurn, As Housewives do, a Fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls - And put them each in separate Drawers, For fear the numbers fuse - If o
散文：Will there really be a "Morning"?
Will there really be a Morning? Is there such a thing as Day? Could I see it from the mountains If I were as tall as they? Has it feet like Water lilies? Has it feathers like a Bird? Is it brought from famous countries Of which I have never heard? Oh
散文：How happy is the little Stone
How happy is the little Stone That rambles in the Road alone, And doesn't care about Careers And Exigencies never fears - Whose Coat of elemental Brown A passing Universe put on, And independent as the Sun Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absol
