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The dying need but little, dear

Emily Dickinson
Track 141 on Third Series 
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The dying need but little, dear,--
A glass of water's all,
A flower's unobtrusive face
To punctuate the wall,

A fan, perhaps, a friend's regret,
And certainly that one
No color in the rainbow
Perceives when you are gone.

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Third Series (1896)
Emily Dickinson
  1. 1.
    Real Riches
  2. 2.
    Superiority To Fate
  3. 3.
    Hope
  4. 4.
    Forbidden Fruit (I)
  5. 5.
    Forbidden Fruit (II)
  6. 7.
    To venerate the simple days
  7. 8.
    Life’s Trades
  8. 9.
    Drowning Is Not So Pitiful
  9. 10.
    How Still The Bells In Steeples Stand
  10. 11.
    If the foolish, call them flowers
  11. 12.
    A Syllable
  12. 13.
    Parting
  13. 14.
    Aspiration
  14. 15.
    The Inevitable
  15. 16.
    A Book
  16. 17.
    Who Has Not Found The Heaven Below
  17. 18.
    A Portrait
  18. 19.
    I had a guinea golden
  19. 20.
    Saturday Afternoon
  20. 21.
    Few Get Enough, Enough Is One
  21. 22.
    Upon The Gallows Hung A Wretch
  22. 23.
    The Lost Thought
  23. 24.
    Reticence
  24. 25.
    With Flowers
  25. 26.
    The Farthest Thunder That I Heard
  26. 27.
    On The Bleakness Of My Lot
  27. 28.
    Contrast
  28. 29.
    Friends
  29. 30.
    Fire
  30. 31.
    A Man
  31. 32.
    Ventures
  32. 33.
    Griefs
  33. 34.
    I have a King, who does not speak
  34. 35.
    Disenchantment
  35. 36.
    Lost Faith
  36. 37.
    Lost Joy
  37. 38.
    I Worked For Chaff, And Earning Wheat
  38. 39.
    Life, and Death, and Giants
  39. 40.
    Alpine Glow
  40. 41.
    Remembrance
  41. 42.
    To hang our head—ostensibly
  42. 43.
    The Brain
  43. 44.
    The Bone That Has No Marrow
  44. 45.
    The Past
  45. 46.
    To Help Our Bleaker Parts
  46. 47.
    What Soft—Cherubic Creatures (401)
  47. 48.
    Desire
  48. 49.
    Philosophy
  49. 50.
    Power
  50. 51.
    A Modest Lot, A Fame Petite
  51. 52.
    Is Bliss then, such Abyss (340)
  52. 53.
    Experience
  53. 54.
    Thanksgiving Day
  54. 55.
    Childish Griefs
  55. 56.
    Consecration
  56. 57.
    Love’s Humility
  57. 58.
    Love
  58. 59.
    Satisfied
  59. 60.
    With A Flower
  60. 61.
    Song
  61. 62.
    Loyalty
  62. 63.
    To Lose Thee, Sweeter Than To Gain
  63. 64.
    Poor little Heart!
  64. 65.
    Forgotten
  65. 66.
    I ’ve Got An Arrow Here
  66. 67.
    The Master
  67. 68.
    Heart, We Will Forget Him
  68. 69.
    Father, I Bring Thee Not Myself
  69. 70.
    We outgrow love like other things
  70. 71.
    Not With A Club The Heart Is Broken
  71. 72.
    Who?
  72. 73.
    He touched me, so I live to know
  73. 74.
    Dreams
  74. 75.
    Numen Lumen
  75. 76.
    Nature’s changes
  76. 77.
    The Tulip
  77. 78.
    A light exists in spring
  78. 79.
    The Waking Year
  79. 80.
    Dear March - Come in - (1320)
  80. 81.
    March
  81. 82.
    Dawn (Version 2)
  82. 83.
    A Murmur in the Trees—to note (416)
  83. 84.
    Morning—is the place for Dew
  84. 85.
    To my quick ear the leaves conferred
  85. 86.
    A Rose
  86. 87.
    High From The Earth I Heard A Bird
  87. 88.
    Cobwebs
  88. 89.
    A Well
  89. 90.
    To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
  90. 91.
    The Wind (Version 2)
  91. 92.
    A Dew Sufficed Itself
  92. 93.
    The Woodpecker
  93. 94.
    Snake
  94. 95.
    Could I but ride indefinite (661)
  95. 96.
    The Moon
  96. 97.
    The Bat
  97. 98.
    The Balloon
  98. 99.
    Evening
  99. 100.
    Cocoon
  100. 101.
    Sunset
  101. 102.
    Aurora
  102. 103.
    The Coming Of Night
  103. 104.
    Aftermath
  104. 105.
    This World is not Conclusion
  105. 106.
    We Learn In The Retreating
  106. 107.
    They say that ”Time assuages”—
  107. 108.
    We Cover Thee—Sweet Face
  108. 109.
    Ending
  109. 110.
    The Stimulus, Beyond The Grave
  110. 111.
    Given in Marriage unto Thee
  111. 112.
    That Such Have Died Enables Us
  112. 113.
    They won’t frown always—some sweet Day
  113. 114.
    Immortality
  114. 115.
    The Distance That The Dead Have Gone
  115. 116.
    How Dare The Robins Sing
  116. 117.
    Death
  117. 118.
    Unwarned
  118. 119.
    Each That We Lose Takes Part Of Us
  119. 120.
    Not Any Higher Stands The Grave
  120. 121.
    Asleep
  121. 122.
    The Spirit is the Conscious Ear
  122. 123.
    The Monument
  123. 124.
    Bless God, he went as soldiers
  124. 125.
    Immortal Is An Ample Word
  125. 126.
    Where Every Bird Is Bold To Go
  126. 127.
    The Grave My Little Cottage Is
  127. 128.
    This was in the White of the Year (995)
  128. 129.
    Sweet Hours Have Perished Here
  129. 130.
    Me! Come! My dazzled face
  130. 131.
    Invisible
  131. 132.
    I Wish I Knew That Woman’s Name
  132. 133.
    Trying To Forget
  133. 134.
    I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280)
  134. 135.
    I meant to find Her when I came
  135. 136.
    Waiting
  136. 137.
    A Sickness Of This World It Most Occasions
  137. 138.
    Superfluous were the Sun (999)
  138. 139.
    So proud she was to die
  139. 140.
    Farewell
  140. 141.
    The dying need but little, dear
  141. 142.
    Dead
  142. 143.
    The Soul Should Always Stand Ajar
  143. 144.
    Three Weeks Passed Since I Had Seen Her
  144. 145.
    I breathed enough to learn the trick
  145. 146.
    I Wonder If The Sepulchre
  146. 147.
    Joy In Death
  147. 148.
    If I may have it, when it’s dead (577)
  148. 149.
    Before the ice is in the pools
  149. 151.
    Adrift! A little boat adrift!
  150. 152.
    There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House
  151. 153.
    We Never Know We Go, When We Are Going
  152. 154.
    The Soul’s Storm
  153. 155.
    Water, is taught by thirst
  154. 156.
    Thirst
  155. 157.
    A Clock Stopped -- Not The Mantel’s
  156. 158.
    Charlotte Bronte’s Grave
  157. 159.
    A toad can die of light!
  158. 160.
    Far From Love The Heavenly Father
  159. 161.
    A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
  160. 162.
    Retrospect
  161. 163.
    Eternity
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