The Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson: Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (Annotated)

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 1830 – May 1886) was an American lyric poet who lived in seclusion and commanded a singular brilliance of style and integrity of vision. Though she was virtually unknown during her lifetime, she is now acknowledged as one of America’s greatest poets of the 19th century.

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HOPE.

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm.
I 've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.