I held a Jewel in my fingers

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I held a Jewel in my fingers
And went to sleep
The day was warm, and winds were prosy
I said "'Twill keep"

I woke—and chid my honest fingers
The Gem was gone
And now, an Amethyst remembrance
Is all I own

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Second Series (1891)

Emily Dickinson

1.
I’m Nobody! Who Are You?
2.
I bring an unaccustomed wine
3.
The nearest Dream recedes—unrealized
4.
We play at paste
5.
I found the phrase to every thought
6.
Hope is the thing with feathers
7.
The White Heat
8.
Who never lost, are unprepared (73)
9.
I can wade Grief (252)
10.
I never hear the word ‘escape’
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For each ecstatic instant
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Through the strait pass of suffering (792)
13.
I meant to have but modest needs (476)
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The thought beneath so slight a film
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The Soul unto itself (683)
16.
Surgeons must be very careful
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The Railway Train
18.
The show is not the show
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Delight becomes pictorial
20.
A thought went up my mind to-day
21.
Is Heaven A Physician?
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Tho’ I get home how late—how late
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A poor — torn heart — a tattered heart
24.
I should have been too glad, I see (313)
25.
It tossed—and tossed (723)
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Victory comes late (690)
27.
God gave a Loaf to every Bird
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Experiment To Me
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My Country’s Wardrobe
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“Faith” is a fine invention
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Except the Heaven had come so near
32.
Portraits are to daily faces
33.
I took my Power in my Hand (540)
34.
A shady friend for torrid days
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Each life converges to some centre
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Before I got my eye put out
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Talk with prudence to a Beggar
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The Preacher
39.
Good night! which put the candle out?
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When I Hoped I Feared
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Deed
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Time’s Lesson
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Remorse
44.
The Body grows without (578)
45.
Undue Significance a starving man attaches
46.
Heart, not so heavy as mine
47.
I many times thought Peace had come (739)
48.
Unto my Books—so good to turn
49.
This Merit hath the worst (979)
50.
I had been hungry, all the Years
51.
I gained it so (359)
52.
To learn the Transport by the Pain
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I Years Had Been From Home
54.
Prayer is the little implement (437)
55.
I know that He exists
56.
Musicians wrestle everywhere
57.
Just lost, when I was saved!
58.
Of all the souls that stand create
59.
I Have No Life But This
60.
Your Riches—taught me—Poverty (299)
61.
I gave myself to Him (580)
62.
Going to him! Happy letter! Tell him
63.
The Way I read a Letter’s—this (636)
64.
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (249)
65.
The Night was wide, and furnished scant
66.
Did the Harebell loose her girdle
67.
A Charm invests a face (421)
68.
The Rose did caper on her cheek
69.
In lands I never saw—they say
70.
The Moon Is Distant From The Sea
71.
He put the Belt around my life (273)
72.
I held a Jewel in my fingers
73.
What if I say I shall not wait!
74.
Nature—the Gentlest Mother is
75.
Will there really be a ”Morning”? (101)
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At Half-Past Three A Single Bird
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The day came slow, till five o’ clock
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The Sun—just touched the Morning
79.
The Robin is the One
80.
From Cocoon forth a Butterfly
81.
Before you thought of spring
82.
An altered look about the hills
83.
Whose are the little beds, I asked
84.
Pigmy seraphs—gone astray
85.
To hear an Oriole sing
86.
The Oriole
87.
In Shadow
88.
A Route of Evanescence
89.
The Skies can’t keep their secret! (191)
90.
Who Robbed The Woods?
91.
Two Butterflies went out at Noon— (533)
92.
By The Sea
93.
Arcturus is his other name (70)
94.
An awful Tempest mashed the air
95.
An everywhere of silver
96.
A Bird came down the Walk (328)
97.
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
98.
The Mushroom
99.
There came a Wind like a Bugle
100.
The Spider
101.
I know a place where summer strives
102.
The One who could repeat the Summer day
103.
The wind tapped like a tired man
104.
Nature rarer uses yellow
105.
The Leaves like Women interchange (987)
106.
How Happy Is The Little Stone
107.
Storm
108.
The Rat
109.
Frequently the wood are pink (6)
110.
The wind begun to rock the grass
111.
South Winds jostle them
112.
Where Ships of Purple—gently toss
113.
She sweeps with many-colored brooms
114.
Like Mighty Foot Lights—burned the Red
115.
Bring me the sunset in a cup
116.
Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple (228)
117.
My Cricket
118.
As Imperceptibly as Grief
119.
It can’t be ”Summer”! (221)
120.
The Gentian weaves her fringes
121.
God made a little Gentian (442)
122.
Besides the Autumn poets sing (131)
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The Blue Jay
125.
Let Down The Bars, O Death!
126.
Going to Heaven!
127.
At least—to pray—is left—is left (502)
128.
Epitaph
129.
Morns like these—we parted
130.
A Death blow is a Life blow to Some
131.
I read my sentence—steadily (412)
132.
I Have Not Told My Garden Yet
133.
They dropped like flakes
134.
The only ghost I ever saw
135.
Some, too fragile for winter winds
136.
As by the dead we love to sit
137.
Death sets a Thing significant
138.
I went to heaven
139.
Their Height in Heaven comforts not (696)
140.
There is a Shame of Nobleness (551)
141.
Triumph—may be of several kinds (455)
142.
Pompless No Life Can Pass Away
143.
I Noticed People Disappeared
144.
I had no Cause to be awake (542)
145.
If anybody’s friend be dead (509)
146.
Our journey had advanced
147.
Ample make this Bed
148.
On such a night, or such a night
149.
Essential Oils — are wrung
150.
I lived on dread; to those who know
151.
If I should die
152.
Her final Summer was it
153.
One need not be a chamber to be haunted
154.
She died—this was the way she died
155.
Wait till the Majesty of Death
156.
Went Up A Year This Evening!
157.
Requiem
158.
What Inn is this
159.
It was not Death, for I stood up (510)
160.
I should not dare to leave my friend
161.
Void
162.
A throe upon the features (71)
163.
Of Tribulation, these are They
164.
I think just how my shape will rise
165.
After a hundred years
166.
Lay This Laurel On The One

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