EMILY DICKINSON'S COMPLETE WORKS OF POETRY
[Authoritative Nook Edition]

THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING COLLECTION OF POETRY by EMILY DICKINSON

The Complete Works Collection of Emily Dickinson's Complete and Unabridged Poetry
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EXCERPTS

"Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear!"

"They shut me up in Prose –
As when a little Girl
They put me in the Closet –
Because they liked me "still" –
Still! Could themself have peeped –
And seen my Brain – go round –
They might as wise have lodged a Bird
For Treason – in the Pound –"

"A solemn thing – it was – I said –
A Woman – White – to be –
And wear – if God should count me fit –
Her blameless mystery –"

"Though the great Waters sleep,
That they are still the Deep,
We cannot doubt –
No vacillating God
Ignited this Abode
To put it out –"