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About Emily Dickinson

American poet known for her unconventional use of form and syntax. Most of her work was published posthumously.

More poems by Emily Dickinson

• Because I could not stop for Death — Emily Dickinson (1863)
• I'm Nobody — Emily Dickinson (1891)
• I'm Nobody! Who are you? — Emily Dickinson (1891)
• Hope is the Thing with Feathers — Emily Dickinson (1861)
• Much madness is divinest sense — Emily Dickinson
• "Hope" is the thing with feathers — Emily Dickinson
• Beauty -- be not caused -- It Is -- — Emily Dickinson
• Beauty crowds me till I die — Emily Dickinson

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More Life & Death poems

• Fire and Ice — Robert Frost (1923)
• Hamlet's Soliloquy: To be or not to be — William Shakespeare
• Crabbed Age and Youth — William Shakespeare (1599)
• Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud — John Donne
• A Sea Dirge — William Shakespeare
• Crossing the Bar — William Butler Yeats (1889)
• Fidele — William Shakespeare
• In Memoriam 82: I Wage Not Any Feud With Death — Lord Alfred Tennyson

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