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In "Surrender," Emily Dickinson gives voice to a woman who has already offered everything to her beloved and still hears his doubt. She pleads with him to believe her, insisting that even God would be content with a...

Suspense by Emily Dickinson is a short poem that turns the nearest room into a place of high stakes. Across two compact stanzas, a waiting soul listens for an approaching footstep and the opening of a door, unsure...

"Mine" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson in which a speaker declares possession with escalating, almost defiant force. Each line stakes a claim through images of royal seals, white elections and scarlet prison bars, as...

The Mystery of Pain is a short Emily Dickinson poem that gives suffering a strange, almost abstract face. In just two stanzas, it describes pain as a blank element that cannot recall its beginning or imagine a day...

The Book of Martyrs by Emily Dickinson is a short poem that invites the reader to open a book of brave lives and draw strength from them. Each stanza turns on a quiet exchange: others strove so that we may grow stouter...

"To fight aloud is very brave" is a short Emily Dickinson poem that honors the battles no one witnesses. Instead of banners and cheering crowds, it turns to the quiet struggle inside the heart, where a cavalry of woe...

In The Lonely House, Emily Dickinson's short poem, a narrator eyes isolated houses that a robber would love. Two burglars creep toward a portico, one holding the tools while the other watches for sleepers. Inside, a...

Along the Potomac is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that begins with a childhood memory of a woman's death. Years later, her only son goes up from the Potomac, his face all victory, to look upon her grave. The speaker...

"It was too late for man" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that you can read online in about a minute. In two compact stanzas, a speaker faces a moment when human help has failed and creation itself is powerless...

"Presentiment is that long shadow" is a four-line poem by Emily Dickinson that turns an ordinary evening into a quiet warning. A shadow stretches across the lawn, and the startled grass senses that darkness is about to...

In "The Wife," a short poem by Emily Dickinson, a young woman sets aside the playthings of her girlhood to take up the "honorable work" of being a wife. The poem lingers on what she may have lost in the exchange...

"Proof" is a short poem in which a lover answers a doubting heart with three quiet, daring claims. The speaker insists that love only began to be real once it was felt, that love and life are one and the same, and that...

Bequest, a short poem by Emily Dickinson, turns a loved one's death into an inheritance of two strange gifts. The speaker is left a love so immense that even a Heavenly Father would accept it, and a vast, sea-wide...

"Belshazzar had a letter" is a compact poem that turns the biblical feast of King Belshazzar into a riddle about conscience. In just eight lines, a king receives his only message, written by a mysterious correspondent...

"Whether my bark went down at sea" is a short poem in which a speaker watches the bay for a vessel that may be lost. Was it wrecked by gales, or carried to enchanted isles on docile sails? The speaker cannot know what...