Poems

The more than one hundred poems presented here are some of Emily Dickinson’s finest works. These unique and gemlike lyrics are pure distillations of profound feeling and great intellect. They contain a world of imagination, observation, and precisely articulated spiritual and emotional experience. Unlike other editions of Dickinson’s work, which contain the public-domain versions of poems published shortly after her death, the ones reprinted here are reconstructions based on Dickinson’s original manuscripts.