Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinsonwas an American poet. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Although part of a prominent family with strong ties to its community, Dickinson lived much of her life highly introverted. After studying at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she briefly attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a noted penchant for white clothing and became known for her reluctance to...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 December 1830
CityAmherst, MA
A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides
The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam.
Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
Action is redemption.
Sunrise: day's great progenitor.
The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.
I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
God, keep me from what they call 'households,'
You can stay young as long as you learn.
The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.
Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!
I took my Power in my Hand -- And went against the World -- 'Twas not so much as David -- had -- But I -- was twice as bold -- I aimed by Pebble -- but Myself Was all the one that fell -- Was it Goliath -- was too large -- Or was myself -- too small?