Emily Dickinson was very productive in creating poems during her lifetime. She wrote over 1,800 poems.
If you’re unsure why it’s important to read and study Emily’s Dickinson’s poetry, here’s 5 reasons she’s still relevant.
“A Little Road Not Made of Man”
“A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest By”
“Awake Ye Muses Nine, Sing Me A Strain Divine”
“Frequently the Woods are Pink”
“The Feet of People Walking Home”
“Through Lane It Lay Through Bramble”
“I Never Told the Buried Gold”
“As Children Bid the Guest Good Night”
“Glee, The Great Storm is Over”
“Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart”
“I Had No Time to Hate Because”
“I Know a Place Where Summer Strives”
“I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed”
“If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking”
“If You Were Coming in the Fall”
“Much Madness is Divinest Sense”
“New Feet Within My Garden Go”
“On This Long Storm, the Rainbow Rose”
“Perhaps You’d Like to Buy a Flower”
“Presentiment is that Long Shadow on the Lawn”
“Safe in their Alabaster Chambers”
“The One that Could Repeat the Summer Day”
“There’s a Certain Slant of Light”
“To Fight Aloud is Very Brave”
“Two Swimmers Wrestled on the Spar”
“Upon the Gallows Hung a Wretch”
“Whether My Bark Went Down at Sea”
“Your Riches Taught Me Poverty”
“A Clock Stopped Not the Mantels”
“A Death Blow is a Life Blow to Some”
“A Murmur in the Trees to Note”
“A Poor Torn Heart a Tattered Heart”
“A Shady Friend for Torrid Days”
“A Sickness of This World It Most Occasions”
“A Thought Went Up My Mind Today”
“A Train Went Through a Burial Gate”
“As By the Dead We Love to Sit”
“At Half Past Three a Single Bird”
“At Least to Pray is Left is Left”
“Before the Ice is in the Pools”
“Bless God He Went as Soldiers”
“Each That We Lose Takes Part of Us”
“Except the Heaven had Come so Near”
“Except to Heaven She is Nought”
“Far from Love, the Heavenly Father”
“Father I Bring Thee Not Myself”
“Frequently the Woods are Pink”
“Good Night, Which Put the Candle Out”
“He Put the Belt Around My Life”
“He Touched Me So I Live to Know”
“High from the Earth I Heard a Bird”
“How Still the Bells in Steeples Stand”
“I Breathed Enough to Learn the Trick”
“I Bring an Unaccustomed Wine”
“I Died for Beauty But was Scarce”
“I Felt a Funeral in my Brain”
“I Found the Phrase to Every Thought”
“I Have a King Who Does Not Speak”
“I Have Not Told My Garden Yet”
“I Lived on Dread to Those Who Know”
“I Many Times Thought Peace Had Come”
“I Meant to Find Her When I Came”
“I Never Lost as Much but Twice”
“I Noticed People Disappeared”
“I Shall Know Why When Time is Over”
“I Think Just How My Shape Will Rise”
“I Wish I Knew that Woman’s Name”
“I Worked for Chaff and Earning Wheat”
“If I May Have It When It’s Dead”
“If the Foolish Call Them Flowers”
“In Lands I Never Saw They Say”
“It was not Death For I Stood Up”
“It’s All I Have to Bring Today”
“Like Mighty Footlights Burned the Red”
“Look Back on Time with Kindly Eyes”
“Morning is the Place for Dew”
“My Nosegays are for Captives”
“Not Any Higher Stands the Grave”
“Not With a Club the Heart is Broken”
“Pompless No Life Can Pass Away”
“Portraits are to Daily Faces”
“She Sweeps with Many Colored Brooms”
“She Went as Quiet as the Dew”
“Some Too Fragile for Winter Winds”
“Surgeons Must Be Very Careful”
“Sweet Hours Have Perished Here”
“T’was Later When the Summer Went”
‘Talk with Prudence to a Beggar”
“That Such Have Died Enables Us”
“The Butterfly’s Assumption Gown”
“The Daisy Follows Soft the Sun”
“The Distance That the Dead Have Gone”
“The Dying Need But Little Dear”
“The Farthest Thunder that I Heard”
“The Last Night that She Lived”
“The Moon is Distant from the Sea”
“The Nearest Dream Recedes Unrealized”
“The Soul Should Always Stand Ajar”
“The Stimulus Beyond the Grave”
“The Thought Beneath So Slight a Film”
“The Way I Read a Letters This”
“Their Height in Heaven Comforts Not”
“There is a Shame of Nobleness”
“There’s Been a Death in the Opposite House”
“They Won’t Frown Always Some Sweet Day”
“This was in the White of the Year”
“This World is not Conclusion”
“Three Weeks Passed Since I had seen Her”
“To Know Just How He Suffered Would Be Dear”
“To Learn the Transport by the Pain”
“To Lose Thee Sweeter Than to Gain”
“To Make a Prairie it Takes a Clover and One Bee”
“To My Quick Ear the Leaves Conferred”
“Undue Significance a Starving Man Attaches”
“Unto my Books So Good to Turn”
“We Never Know We Go When We Are Going”
“We Outgrow Love Like Other Things”
“What If I Say I Shall Not Wait”
“What Soft Cherubic Creatures”
“Where Every Bird is Bold To Go”
“Who Has Not Found the Heaven Below”
“I Felt a Funeral in My Brain”
“Hope is a thing with feathers”
“Because I could not stop for Death”
“My Life Had Stood – a Loaded Gun”
“Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant – “
The poems listed above have all been sourced from the original collection edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, as those are the only poems by her currently out of copyright. These versions also are important, because they are the poems that the public read in the early 1890s and were crucial in establishing Emily Dickinson’s poetry reputation and building a community of readers. These were the poems that were read until 1998, thus the Emily that was celebrated by the world for most of their published lives are the versions below. The unedited and original versions of her poems have become important as the scholarly community has grown as well as the cult following surrounding Emily Dickinson’s rise to global recognition in the Western literary canon.
To read the raw version of her poetry, you will need to visit the Poetry Foundation’s website or purchase an edition of R.W. Franklin’s publication by Harvard University Press.