Emily Dickinson

A HitchHiker Poet

I bought one of her books today...Great writing

FinsburyParkCarrots

I agree.

FinsburyParkCarrots

I always did like this one of hers:

HAVE you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And blushing birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?

And nobody, knows, so still it flows,
That any brook is there;
And yet your little draught of life
Is daily drunken there.

Then look out for the little brook in March,
When the rivers overflow,
And the snows come hurrying from the hills,
And the bridges often go.

And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows parching lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!

of_the_girl

Mmmmm Emily Dickinson. I did my "ten minute speech" on her in my Eighth Grade Composition/Literature class. I fell in love with her poetry and just.. even her life. So interesting, she was. Haha.. whoa I just talked like Yoda!! Anywayyy... I really really enjoy reading her works. A lovely spirit.

A HitchHiker Poet

One of my favorites:
I hide myself within my flower
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too-
And angels know the rest.

I hide myself within my flower,
That, fasding from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness.

ISN

that's beautiful.....

what's it called.....

I've got to find that now.....

A HitchHiker Poet

It really didnt have a name...it was in the section called love

A HitchHiker Poet

Here's another one:

Heaven is what I cannot reach!
The apple on the tree,
Provided it do hopeless hang,
That "heaven" is, to me.

The color on the cruising cloud,
The interdicted ground
Behind the hill, the house behind,-
There Paradise is found!

of_the_girl

Originally posted by ISN
that's beautiful.....

what's it called.....

I've got to find that now.....

Most of her poetry is titled by the first line of the poem. So in this case, the title is most likely "I hide myself within my flower", if it has a title at all.

ISN

thanks.....I've got an anthology of verse.....so I can look up the first line and see whether it's included......I want to write it into my diary.....otherwise.....A HH Poet will have to tell me what 'fasding' is in the vase line....it could be 'fading'.....I tried to copy it last night but.....that word stalled me

A HitchHiker Poet

Yeah I was kind of tipsy when I wrote that one

ISN

heheehehehehe......tipsy topsy falls over.....and LANDS on the keyboard