Emily Dickinson Poems

Everyone seems to have their favorite Emily Dickinson poems, but she wrote far more than she is often remembered for. We hope you enjoy exploring the range of short and longer poems that the poet penned in her lifetime (often on the back of chocolate wrappers—which we highly approve!).

I. Life

I. Success

II. Our share of night to bear

III. Rouge et Noir

IV. Rouge Gagne

V. Glee! The great storm is over!

VI. If I can stop one heart from breaking

VII. Almost!

VIII. A wounded deer leaps highest

IX. The heart asks pleasure first

X. In a Library

XI. Much madness is divinest sense

XII. I asked no other thing

XIII. Exclusion

XIV. The Secret

XV. The Lonely House

XVI. To fight aloud is very brave

XVII. Dawn

XVIII. The Book of Martyrs

XIX. The Mystery of Pain

XX. I taste a liquor never brewed

XXI. A Book

XXII. I had no time to hate

XXIII. Unreturning

XXIV. Whether my bark went down at sea

XXV. Belshazzar had a letter

XXVI. The brain within its groove

II. Love

I. Mine

II. Bequest

III. Alter? When the hills do

IV. Suspense

V. Surrender

VI. If you were coming in the fall

VII. With a flower

VIII. Proof

IX. Have you got a brook in your little heart

X. Transplanted

XI. The Outlet

XII. In Vain

XIII. Renunciation

XIV. Love’s Baptism

XV. Resurrection

XVI. Apocalypse

We hope you enjoy these Emily Dickinson poems!

More Emily Dickinson Resources

A Pencil for Emily Dickinson (fun post on visiting the estate and cemetary in Amherst)

Take Your Poet to Work-Emily Dickinson (includes cut-n-color poet)

The Yellow Wall-Paper Graphic Novel Book Club—The Thing With Feathers

The Yellow Wall-Paper Graphic Novel Book Club—Tell It Slant

The Yellow Wall-Paper Graphic Novel Book Club—Divinest Sense