The Malay—took the Pearl (452)

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The Malay—took the Pearl—
Not—I—the Earl—
I—feared the Sea—too much
Unsanctified—to touch—

Praying that I might be
Worthy—the Destiny—
The Swarthy fellow swam—
And bore my Jewel—Home—

Home to the Hut! What lot
Had I—the Jewel—got—
Borne on a Dusky Breasty—
I had not deemed a Vest
Of Amber—fit—

The Negro never knew
I—wooed it—too—
To gain, or be undone—
Alike to Him—One—

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Poems by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

1.
Arcturus is his other name (70)
2.
Heaven has different Signs—to me (575)
3.
Heaven—is what I cannot reach! (239)
4.
I want—it pleaded—All its life (731)
5.
Morning—means ”Milking”—to the Farmer (300)
6.
A Book
7.
A Burdock—clawed my Gown (229)
8.
A Charm invests a face (421)
9.
A Clock Stopped -- Not The Mantel’s
10.
A door just opened on a street
11.
A Dying Tiger—moaned for Drink (566)
12.
A happy lip—breaks sudden (353)
13.
A Lady red—amid the Hill (74)
14.
A light exists in spring
15.
A little East of Jordan (59)
16.
A little road not made man
17.
A loss of something ever felt I (959)
18.
A Mien to move a Queen (283)
19.
A Moth the hue of this (841)
20.
A Murmur in the Trees—to note (416)
21.
A nearness to Tremendousness (963)
22.
A Night—there lay the Days between (471)
23.
A precious—mouldering pleasure (371)
24.
A Route of Evanescence
25.
A single Screw of Flesh (263)
26.
A solemn thing—it was—I said (483)
27.
A something in a summer’s Day (122)
28.
A still—Volcano—Life (601)
29.
A thought went up my mind to-day
30.
A throe upon the features (71)
31.
A Tongue—to tell Him I am true! (400)
32.
A Weight with Needles on the pounds (264)
33.
A Wife—at daybreak I shall be (461)
35.
Abraham to Kill Him
36.
Absence disembodies—so does Death (860)
37.
I’m ceded—I’ve stopped being Theirs (508)
39.
Ah, Moon—and Star! (240)
40.
All forgot for recollecting (966)
41.
Alone, I cannot be (298)
42.
An English Breeze
43.
An everywhere of silver
44.
And this of all my Hopes (913)
45.
Apparently with no Surprise
46.
As Children bid the Guest “Good Night” (133)
47.
At least—to pray—is left—is left (502)
48.
Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine (1)
49.
Away from Home are some and I (821)
50.
Banish Air from Air (854)
51.
Because the Bee may blameless hum (869)
52.
Beclouded
53.
Bee! I’m expecting you! (1035)
54.
Bereavement in their death to feel (645)
55.
Best Gains—must have the Losses’ Test (684)
56.
Best Things dwell out of Sight (998)
57.
Better—than Music! For I—who heard it (503)
59.
Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple (228)
60.
Bloom upon the Mountain—stated (667)
61.
Bound—a trouble (269)
62.
Braind within its groove, The
63.
Chartless
64.
Conjecturing a Climate (562)
65.
Could I but ride indefinite (661)
66.
Could I—then—shut the door (220)
67.
Could—I do more—for Thee (447)
68.
Crumbling is not an instant’s Act (997)
69.
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? (365)
70.
Death is potential to that Man (548)
71.
Death Leaves Us homesick, Who Behind
72.
Death sets a thing of signigicant
73.
Delight is as the flight (257)
74.
Despair’s advantage is achieved (799)
75.
Did we disobey Him? (267)
76.
Did you ever stand in a Cavern’s Mouth (590)
77.
Don’t put up my Thread and Needle (617)
78.
Doubt Me! My Dim Companion! (275)
79.
Drama’s Vitallest Expression is the Common Day (741)
80.
Dreams—are well—but Waking’s better (450)
81.
Dropped into the Ether Acre (665)
83.
Each Scar I’ll keep for Him (877)
84.
Elysium is as far as to
85.
Empty my Heart, of Thee (587)
86.
Endow the Living—with the Tears (521)
88.
Exhilaration—is within (383)
89.
Fairer through Fading—as the Day (938)
91.
Fame is a bee (1763)
92.
Fame is the tine that Scholars leave (866)
93.
Finite—to fail, but infinite to Venture (847)
94.
First Robin
95.
Fitter to see Him, I may be (968)
96.
For Death—or rather (382)
97.
For largest Woman’s Hearth I knew (309)
98.
Forever at His side to walk (246)
99.
Forever—is composed of Nows (624)
100.
Forget! The lady with the Amulet (438)
101.
Frequently the wood are pink (6)
102.
Further in Summer than the Birds (1068)
103.
Give little Anguish (310)
104.
Glee—The great storm is over (619)
105.
God is a distant—stately Lover (357)
106.
God made a little Gentian (442)
107.
Going to him! Happy letter! Tell him
108.
Good night! which put the candle out?
109.
Gratitude—is not the mention (989)
110.
Had I not This, or This, I said (904)
111.
He fought like those Who’ve nought to lose (759)
112.
He fumbles at your Soul (315)
113.
He put the Belt around my life (273)
114.
He strained my faith (497)
115.
Heaven (575)
116.
Heaven is so far of the Mind (370)
117.
Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead (649)
118.
Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night (518)
119.
Her—”last Poems” (312)
120.
His Bill an Auger is (1034)
121.
His Feet are shod with Gauze (916)
122.
Home
123.
How sick—to wait—in any place—but thine (368)
124.
How the old Mountains drip with Sunset (291)
125.
I am ashamed—I hide (473)
126.
I asked no other thing (621)
127.
I breathed enough to learn the trick
128.
I Came to buy a smile—today (223)
129.
I can wade Grief (252)
130.
I can’t tell you—but you feel it (65)
131.
I could bring You Jewels—had I a mind to (697)
132.
I could die—to know (570)
133.
I cried at Pity—not at Pain (588)
134.
I cross till I am weary (550)
136.
I dreaded that first Robin, so (348)
137.
I found the phrase to every thought
138.
I gained it so (359)
139.
I gave myself to Him (580)
140.
I got so I could take his name (293)
141.
I had no Cause to be awake (542)
143.
I had no time to hate, because
144.
I had not minded—Walls (398)
145.
I had the Glory—that will do (349)
146.
I have never seen “Volcanoes” (175)
147.
I haven’t told my garden yet (50)
148.
I hide myself within my flower (903)
149.
I know lives, I could miss (372)
150.
I know some lonely Houses off the Road (289)
151.
I know where Wells grow—Droughtless Wells (460)
152.
I learned—at least—what Home could be (944)
153.
I live with Him—I see His face (463)
155.
I lived on dread; to those who know
156.
I many times thought Peace had come (739)
157.
I meant to have but modest needs (476)
158.
I ment to find her when I came (718)
159.
I never felt at Home—Below (413)
160.
I never hear the word ‘escape’
161.
I Never Saw a Moor
162.
I pay—in Satin Cash (402)
163.
I play at Riches—to appease (801)
164.
I prayed, at first, a little Girl (576)
165.
I read my sentence—steadily (412)
166.
I rose—because He sank (616)
167.
I saw no Way—The Heavens were stitched (378)
168.
I see thee better—in the Dark
169.
I send Two Sunsets (308)
170.
I should have been too glad, I see (313)
171.
I showed her Heights she never saw (446)
172.
I sometimes drop it, for a Quick (708)
173.
I stepped from plank to plank
174.
I tend my flowers for thee (339)
175.
I think I was enchanted (593)
176.
I think the Hemlock likes to stand (525)
177.
I think to Live—may be a Bliss (646)
178.
I took my Power in my Hand (540)
179.
I watched the Moon around the House (629)
180.
I went to thank Her (363)
181.
I would not paint—a picture (505)
182.
I’ll tell you how the sun rose
183.
Ideals are the Fairly Oil (983)
184.
If anybody’s friend be dead (509)
185.
If Blame be my side—forfeit Me (775)
186.
If He were living—dare I ask (734)
187.
If I can stop one heart from breaking
188.
If I may have it, when it’s dead (577)
189.
If I shouldn’t be alive (182)
190.
If I’m lost—now (256)
191.
If the foolish, call them “flowers” (168)
192.
If this is “fading” (120)
193.
If What we could—were what we would (407)
194.
If your Nerve, deny you
195.
I’ll clutch—and clutch (427)
196.
I’ll send the feather from my Hat! (687)
197.
I’m ”wife”—I’ve finished that
198.
I’m saying every day (373)
199.
I’m sorry for the Dead—Today (529)
201.
I’m the little “Heart’s Ease” (176)
202.
In This Short Life
203.
In Winter in my Room (1670)
204.
Is Bliss then, such Abyss (340)
205.
It is dead—Find it (417)
206.
Is it true, dear Sue? (218)
207.
It always felt to me—a wrong (597)
208.
It can’t be ”Summer”! (221)
209.
It don’t sound so terrible—quite—as it did (426)
210.
It Dropped So Low -- In My Regard
211.
It feels a shame to be Alive (444)
212.
It knew no Medicine (559)
213.
It struck me every day
214.
It tossed—and tossed (723)
215.
It was given to me by the Gods (454)
216.
It will be Summer—eventually (342)
217.
It would never be Common—more—I said (430)
218.
It’s coming—the postponeless Creature (390)
219.
It’s easy to invent a Life (724)
220.
It’s like the light
221.
It’s such a little thing to weep (189)
222.
It’s thoughts—and just One Heart
223.
I’ve heard an Organ talk, sometimes (183)
224.
I’ve known a Heaven, like a Tent (243)
225.
I’ve none to tell me to but Thee (881)
226.
I’ve nothing else—to bring, You know (224)
227.
I’ve seen a Dying Eye (547)
228.
Joy to have merited the Pain (788)
229.
Just as He spoke it from his Hands (848)
230.
Like eyes that looked on Wastes (458)
231.
Like Flowers, that heard the news of Dews (513)
232.
Like Some Old fashioned Miracle (302)
233.
Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
234.
Love—thou art high (453)
235.
Me from Myself—to banish (642)
236.
Me prove it now—Whoever doubt (537)
238.
Midsummer, was it, when They died (962)
239.
Mine—by the Right of the White Election! (528)
240.
More Life—went out—when He went (422)
241.
Most she touched me by her muteness (760)
242.
Much Madness is divinest Sense
243.
My best Acquaintances are those (932)
244.
My first well Day—since many ill (574)
245.
My Garden—like the Beach (484)
246.
My Portion is Defeat—today (639)
247.
My Reward for Being, was This (343)
248.
My Soul—accused me—And I quailed (753)
249.
Nature rarer uses yellow
250.
Nature—sometimes sears a Sapling (314)
251.
New feet within my garden go (99)
252.
No Crowd that has occurred (515)
253.
No Man can compass a Despair (477)
254.
No matter—now—Sweet (704)
255.
No Other can reduce (982)
256.
No Prisoner be (720)
257.
No Rack can torture me (384)
258.
Not ”Revelation”—’tis—that waits (685)
259.
Not in this world to see his face
260.
Not that We did, shall be the test (823)
261.
Of all the Sounds despatched abroad (321)
262.
Of Being is a Bird (653)
263.
Of Course—I prayed (376)
264.
Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe (896)
265.
Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause? (947)
266.
On that dear Frame the Years had worn (940)
267.
Once more, my now bewildered Dove (48)
268.
One and One—are One (769)
269.
Our journey had advanced
270.
Our share of night to bear (113)
271.
Ourselves were wed one summer—dear (631)
272.
Over and over, like a Tune (367)
273.
Pain Has An Element
274.
Pain has an element of Blank (650)
275.
Partake as doth the Bee (994)
276.
Perhaps I Asked Too Large
277.
Perhaps you’d like to buy a flower (134)
278.
Prayer is the little implement (437)
279.
Precious to Me—She still shall be (727)
280.
Promise This—When You be Dying (648)
281.
Rehearsal to Ourselves (379)
282.
Remorse
283.
Removed from Accident of Loss (424)
284.
Renunciation
285.
Reverse cannot befall (395)
286.
Savior! I’ve no one else to tell (217)
287.
Severer Service of myself (786)
288.
Sexton! My Master’s sleeping here (96)
289.
She dealt her pretty words like Blades (479)
290.
She dwelleth in the Ground (671)
291.
She sped as Petals of a Rose (991)
292.
She staked her Feathers—Gained an Arc (798)
293.
She sweeps with many-colored brooms
294.
Shells from the Coast mistaking (693)
295.
She’s happy, with a new Content (535)
296.
Size circumscribes—it has no room (641)
297.
So bashful when I spied her! (91)
298.
So glad we are—a Stranger’d deem (329)
299.
So proud she was to die
300.
So the Eyes accost—and sunder (752)
301.
So well that I can live without (456)
302.
Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church
303.
Some Rainbow—coming from the Fair! (64)
304.
Some such Butterfly be seen (541)
305.
Some—Work for Immortality (406)
306.
Soto! Explore thyself! (832)
307.
Soul, Wilt thou toss again? (139)
308.
Speech’—is a prank of Parliament (688)
309.
Split the Lark—and you’ll find the Music (861)
310.
Strong Draughts of Their Refreshing Minds (711)
311.
Sunset at Night—is natural (415)
312.
Superfluous were the Sun (999)
313.
Suspense—is Hostiler than Death (705)
314.
Sweet—safe—Houses (457)
315.
Sweet—You forgot—but I remembered (523)
316.
Sweet, to have had them lost (901)
317.
Take your Heaven further on (388)
318.
Taking up the fair Ideal (428)
319.
The Angle of a Landscape (375)
320.
The Bee is not afraid of me (111)
321.
The Beggar Lad—dies early (717)
322.
The Birds begun at Four o’clock (783)
323.
The Birds reported from the South (743)
324.
The Black Berry—wears a Thorn in his side
325.
The Body grows without (578)
326.
The Brain, within its Groove (556)
327.
The Child’s faith is new (637)
328.
The Color of a Queen, is this (776)
329.
The Color of the Grave is Green (411)
330.
The cricket sang
331.
The Day that I was crowned (356)
332.
The Definition of Beauty is (988)
333.
The difference between Despair (305)
334.
The Dust behind I strove to join (992)
336.
The feet of people walking home (7)
337.
The Fingers of the Light (1000)
338.
The first Day’s Night had come (410)
339.
The Future—never spoke (672)
340.
The Grace—Myself—might not obtain (707)
341.
The Grass so little has to do
342.
The Hollows round His eager Eyes (955)
343.
The Judge is like the Owl (699)
344.
The Juggler’s Hat her Country is (330)
345.
The Lady feeds Her little Bird (941)
346.
The last Night that She lived (1100)
347.
The Leaves like Women interchange (987)
348.
The Malay—took the Pearl (452)
349.
The Manner of its Death (468)
350.
The Missing All—prevented Me (985)
351.
The Morning after Woe (364)
352.
The Murmur of a Bee (155)
353.
The Mystery of Pain
354.
The name—of it—is “Autumn” (656)
355.
The only ghost I ever saw
356.
The pedigree of honey
357.
The power to be true to You (464)
358.
The Province of the Saved (539)
359.
The Red—Blaze—is the Morning (469)
360.
The Robin’s my Criterion for Tune (285)
361.
The show is not the show
362.
The Skies can’t keep their secret! (191)
363.
The Soul has Bandaged moments (512)
364.
The Soul that hath a Guest (674)
365.
The Soul’s distinct connection (974)
366.
The Soul’s Superior instants (306)
367.
The Spider holds a Silver Ball
368.
The Sun and Moon must make their haste (871)
369.
The Sun kept setting—setting—still (692)
370.
The Test of Love—is Death (573)
371.
The thought beneath so slight a film
372.
The Tint I cannot take—is best (627)
373.
The Truth—is stirless (780)
374.
The Way I read a Letter’s—this (636)
375.
The White Heat
376.
The Wind begun to knead the Grass (824)
377.
The Wind didn’t come from the Orchard—today (316)
378.
The wind tapped like a tired man
379.
The Woodpecker
380.
The Zeroes—taught us—Phosphorous (689)
381.
Their Height in Heaven comforts not (696)
382.
There came a Day at Summer’s full (322)
383.
There came a Wind like a Bugle
384.
There is a flower that Bees prefer (380)
385.
There is a Shame of Nobleness (551)
386.
There’s something quieter than sleep (45)
387.
These are the days when Birds come back (130)
388.
These—saw Visions (758)
389.
They dropped like flakes
390.
They leave us with the Infinite (350)
391.
They won’t frown always—some sweet Day (874)
392.
This Dust, and its Feature (936)
393.
This is the land the sunset washes
394.
This Merit hath the worst (979)
395.
This Quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies
396.
This was in the White of the Year (995)
397.
Those fair—fictitious People (499)
398.
Through the strait pass of suffering (792)
399.
Tie the strings to my life, my Lord
400.
Time feels so vast that were it not (802)
401.
Tis Anguish grander than Delight (984)
402.
Tis good—the looking back on Grief (660)
403.
Tis little I—could care for Pearls (466)
404.
Tis One by One — the Father counts (545)
405.
Tis Opposites—entice (355)
406.
Tis so much joy! ’Tis so much joy! (172)
407.
Tis Sunrise—Little Maid—Hast Thou (908)
408.
Tis true—They shut me in the Cold (538)
409.
To be alive—is Power (677)
410.
To fight aloud, is very brave (126)
411.
To fill a Gap (546)
412.
To lose one’s faith—surpass (377)
413.
To make One’s Toilette—after Death (485)
414.
To my quick ear the leaves conferred
415.
To my small Hearth His fire came (638)
416.
To offer brave assistance (767)
417.
To One denied the drink (490)
418.
To see her is a Picture
419.
To wait an Hour—is long (781)
420.
Train
421.
Triumph—may be of several kinds (455)
422.
Twas a long Parting—but the time (625)
423.
Twas Crisis—All the length had passed
424.
Twas Love—not me (394)
425.
Twas the old—road—through pain (344)
426.
Twas warm—at first—like Us (519)
427.
Twice had Summer her fair Verdure (846)
428.
Two swimmers wrestled on the spar (201)
429.
Two—were immortal twice (800)
430.
Unable are the Loved to die (809)
431.
Uncertain lease—develops lustre (857)
432.
Upon Concluded Lives (735)
433.
Victory comes late (690)
434.
We don’t cry—Tim and I (196)
435.
We dream—it is good we are dreaming (531)
436.
We learned the Whole of Love (568)
437.
We like march, his shoes are purple
438.
We met as Sparks—Diverging Flints (958)
439.
We miss Her, not because We see (993)
440.
We play at paste
441.
We pray—to Heaven (489)
442.
We see—Comparatively (534)
443.
We talked as Girls do (586)
444.
We thirst at first—’tis Nature’s Act (726)
445.
What care the Dead, for Chanticleer (592)
446.
What shall I do when the Summer troubles (956)
447.
What Soft—Cherubic Creatures (401)
448.
What would I give to see his face? (247)
449.
When Bells stop ringing—Church—begins (633)
450.
When I have seen the Sun emerge (888)
451.
When I hoped, I recollect (768)
452.
When I was small, a Woman died (596)
453.
When Katie walks, this simple pair accompany her side (222)
454.
When One has given up One’s life (853)
455.
Where I have lost, I softer tread (104)
456.
Where Thou art—that—is Home (725)
457.
While Asters (331)
458.
While it is alive (491)
459.
Who never lost, are unprepared (73)
460.
Why make it doubt—it hurts it so (462)
461.
Will there really be a ”Morning”? (101)
462.
Within my Garden, rides a Bird (500)
463.
Would you like summer? Taste of ours (691)
464.
You cannot put a Fire out (530)
465.
You know that Portrait in the Moon (504)
466.
You love the Lord—you cannot see (487)
467.
You said that I
468.
You’ll find—it when you try to die (610)
469.
You’ll know Her—by Her Foot (634)
470.
You’ll know it—as you know ’tis Noon (420)
471.
Your Riches—taught me—Poverty (299)
472.
You’re right (234)
It’s all I have to bring today
Besides the Autumn poets sing (131)
I died for Beauty — but was scarce
Along The Potomac
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280)
A Man may make a Remark (952)
Two butterflies went out at noon

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