Examples of the timeless work of Dickinson
4/1/2001I'm Nobody
I'm nobody. Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Wild Nights
Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile the winds
To a heart in port, -
Done with the compass,
Done with the chart!
Rowing in Eden!
Ah! the sea!
Might I but moor
Tonight In thee!
If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not love in vain.
Look Back on Time With Kindly Eyes
Look back on time with kindly eyes,
He doubtless did his best;
How softly sinks his trembling sun
In human nature's west!
A Word is Dead
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.