Emily Dickinson

• "Hope" is the thing with feathers

  "Hope" is the thing with feathers

  That perches in the soul
• "Hope" is the thing with feathers

  "And sings the tune without the words -

  And never stops - at all -"
• "Hope" is the thing with feathers

  "And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

  And sore must be the storm -

  That could abash the little Bird

  That kept so many warm"
• "Hope" is the thing with feathers

  "I've heard it in the chillest land -

  And on the strangest Sea -

  Yet, never, in Extremity,

  It asked a crumb - of Me"
• I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

  "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

  And Mourners to and fro

  Kept treading - treading- till it seemed

  That Sense was breaking through"
• I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

  "A Service, like a Drum -

  Kept beating - beating"
• I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

  "Creak across my soul

  With those same Boots of Lead"
• I felt a Funeral, in my Brain


  "As all the Heavens were a Bell,

  And Being, but an Ear,

  And I, and Silence, some strange Race"
• I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

  "And I dropped down, and down -

  And hit a World, at every plunge,

  And Finished knowing - then -"
• I heard a Fly buzz - when I died

  "The Stillness in the Room

  Was like the Stillness in the Air"
• I heard a Fly buzz when I died

  ""And Breaths were gathering firm

  For that last Onset - when the King

  Be witnessed - in the Room"
• I heard a Fly buzz when I died

  "There interposed a Fly"
• I heard a Fly buzz when I died

  "With Blue - uncertain stumbling Buzz -

  Between the light - and me -

  And then the Windows failed - and then

  I coul not see to see"
• The Soul has Bandaged moments

  "She feels some ghastly Fright come up

  And stop to look at her"
• The Soul has Bandaged moments

  "Caress her freezing hair -

  Sip, Goblin, from the very lips

  The Lover - hovered - o'er"
• The Soul has Bandaged moments

  "The soul has moments of Escape -

  When bursting all the doors -

  She dances like a Bomb, abroad

  And swings upon the Hours"
• The Soul has Bandaged moments

  "The Soul's retaken moments -

  When, Felon led along,

  With shackles on the plumed feet,

  And staples, in the Song"
• The Soul has Bandaged moments

  "The Horror welcomes her, again,

  These, are not brayed of Tongue"
• I could bring You Jewels - had I a mind to

  "I could bring you Odors from St. Domingo -

  Colors - from Vera Cruz"
• I could bring You Jewels - had I a mind to


  "This little Blaze

  Flickering to itself - in the Meadow -

  Suits Me - more than those"
• I could bring You Jewels - had I a mind to

  "Never a Fellow matched this Topaz -

  And his Emerald Swing -

  Dower itself - for Bobadilo -

  Better - Could I bring?"
• I taste a liquor never brewed

  "Not all the Vats upon the Rhine

  Yield such an Alcohol!"
• I taste a liquor never brewed

  "Inebriate of Air...

  Debauchee of Dew -

  Reeling - thro endless summer days"
• I taste a liquor never brewed

  "When Butterflies - renounce their 'drams' -

  I shall but drink the more!"
• I taste a liquor never brewed

  "Till Seraphs swing their 'snowy Hats'...

  To see the little Tippler

  Leaning against the - Sun"
• Theme of Death
• Theme of Despair
• Theme of Nature