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Poems by Emily Dickinson

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Not One by Heaven defrauded stay --

... Not One by Heaven defrauded stay -- ...

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Not probable -- The barest Chance

... The Soul so close on Paradise --What if the Bird from journey far -- ...

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Not seeing, still we know --

... And half caress --And quake -- and turn away, ...

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Not Sickness stains the Brave,

... Nor any Dart, Nor Doubt of Scene to come, ...

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Not so the infinite Relations -- Below

... Division is Adhesion's forfeit -- On High ...

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Not that We did, shall be the test

... Not that We did, shall be the test ...

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Not with a Club, the Heart is broken

... Of which it died --Shame need not crouch ...

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Now I knew I lost her --

... Somehow this had come --Henceforth to remember ...

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Obtaining but our own Extent

... 'Twas Christ's own personal Expanse ...

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Of all the Sounds despatched abroad

... Permitted Gods, and me --Inheritance, it is, to us -- ...

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Of Being is a Bird

... The General Heavens -- upon --It soars -- and shifts -- and whirls -- ...

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Of Bronze -- and Blaze

... For Arrogance of them --My Splendors, are Menagerie -- ...

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Of Brussels -- it was not --

... But, principally -- of Sun --The Wind -- unrolled it fast -- ...

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Of Death I try to think like this --

... Decoying but to greet us --I do remember when a Child ...

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Of Glory not a Beam is left

... The Asterisk is for the Dead, ...