Emily Dickinson Poems Author:Thomas Wentworth Higginson EMILY DICKINSON FIRST SECOND SERIES EDITED BY TWO OF HER FRIENDS Mabel Loomis Todd AND T. W. Higginson ILLUSTRATIONS BY Leon INTRODUCTION BY Carl V CWI THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY CLEVELAND AND NEW YORK The Living Library is published by THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY 2231 West 110th Street Cleveland 2 - Ohio 3nc356 THE SPECIAL CONTENTS OF THIS E... more »DITION COPYRIGHT 1948 BY THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS Introduction 1 5 FIRST SERIES Prelude 2,2 Preface 2,3 Renunciation facsimile 2,7 I. LIFE i. Success 33 n. Our share of night to beai 34 in. Rouge et Noir 34 iv. Rouge gagne 35 v. Glee the great storm is over 36 vi. If I can stop one heart from breaking 37 vii. Almost 37 vni. A wounded deer leaps highest 38 ix. The heart asks pleasure first 38 x. In a Library 39 xi. Much madness is divinest sense 40 xn. I asked no other thing 40 xm. Exclusion 41 xiv. The Secret 41 xv. The Lonely House 42 xvi. To fight aloud is very brave 44 xvii. Dawn 44 xvin. The Book of Martyrs 45 xix. The Mystery of Pain 46 x. I taste a liquor never brewed 46 xxi. A Book 47 xxn. I had no time to hate, because 47 xxin. Unreturning 48 xxiv. Whether my bark went down at sea 49 xxv. Belshazzar had a letter 50 xxvi. The brain within its groove 50 II. LOVE i. Mine 53 ii. Bequest 53 in. Alter When the hills do 54 rv. Suspense 54 v. Surrender 55 vi. If you were coming in the fall 55 vn. With a Rower 56 vm. Proof 57 ix. Have you got a brook in your little heart 58 x. Transplanted 59 xi. The Outlet 59 xn. In vain 60 xiii. Renunciation 62, xrv. Loves Baptism 63 xv. Resurrection 64 xvi. Apocalypse 65 XVH. The Wife 66 xvra. Apotheosis 66 III. NATURE i. New feet within my garden go 69 n. Mayflower 69 in. Why 70 rv. Perhaps youd like to buy a flower 71 v. The pedigree of honey 7 6 vi. A Service of Song 7 2 vii. The bee is not afraid of me 73 viii. Summers Armies 74 ix. The Grass 75 x. A little road not made of man 76 xi. Summer Shower 76 xn. Psalm of the Day 77 xin. The Sea of Sunset 79 xiv. Purple Clover 79 xv. The Bee 81 xvi. Presentiment is that long shadow 81 xvn. As children bid the guest good-night 82, xvm. Angels in the early morning 82, xix. So bashful when I spied her 83 xx. Two Worlds 84 xxi. The Mountain 85 xxii. A Day 86 xxin. The butterflys assumption-gown 86 xxiv. The Wind 87 xxv. Death and Life 88 xxvi. T was later when the summer went 88 xxvii. Indian Summer 89 xxvni. Autumn 90 xxix. Beclouded 90 xxx. The Hemlock 91 xxxi. Theres a certain slant of light 92 IV. TIME AND ETERNITY I. One dignity delays for all 95 ii. Too late 96 in. Astra Castra 97 rv. Safe in their alabaster chambers 97 v. On this long storm the rainbow rose 98 vi. From the chrysalis 98 7 vn. Setting sail 99 VHI. Look back on time with kindly eyes 99 ix. A train went through a burial gate 100 x. I died for beauty, but was scarce 100 xi. Troubled about many things 101 xii. Real 102 xiii. A Funeral 102 xiv. I went to thank her 103 xv. Ive seen a dying eye 104 xvi. Refuge 104 xvn. I never saw a moor 105 xvin. Playmates 105 xix. To know just how he suffered 106 xx. The last night that she lived 107 xxi. The First Lesson 108 xxn. The bustle in a house 108 xxm. I reason, earth is short 109 xxiv. Afraid Of whom am I afraid 109 xxv. Dying no xxvi. Two swimmers wrestled on a spar in XXVH. The Chariot in xxvin. She went as quiet as the dew 112 xxix. Resurgam 113 xxx. Except to heaven she is nought 113 xxxi. Death is a dialogue between 114 xxxn. It was too late for man 114 xxxiii. Along the Potomac 115 xxxiv. The daisy follows soft the Sun 116 xxxv. Emancipation 117 xxxvi. Lost 1 1 8 xxxvn. If I shouldnt be alive 118 xxxviii. Sleep is supposed to be 119 xxxix. I shall know why when time is over 120 XL. I never lost as much but twice 120 8 SECOND SERIES Prelude Preface 12,3 I. LIFE i. Im nobody Who are you 129 ii. I bring an unaccustomed wine 129 in. The nearest dream recedes unrealized 130 iv. We play at paste 131 v...« less