Emily Dickinson
poet · Massachusetts, USA · 1830–1886
She hardly left her family home all her life and wrote 1,800 poems. About ten were published while she lived; the rest were found in a drawer after her death.
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c. 1862 (published 1890)
This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me
Poems, First Series
c. 1861 (published 1891)
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.
Poems, Second Series
c. 1861 (published 1891)
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all,
"Hope is the thing with feathers"
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