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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
Photo by Amherst College Library

Emily Dickinson

Born: December 10, 1830 • Died: May 15, 1886

Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but only for one year. Dickinson’s poetry was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England. She was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. The first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890 and the last in 1955. She died in Amherst in 1886. Upon her death, Dickinson’s family discovered forty handbound volumes of nearly 1,800 poems, or “fascicles,” as they are sometimes called. (Source)

Poems by Emily Dickinson

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[God gave a Loaf to every Bird —] by Emily Dickinson

October 2, 2025
“God gave a Loaf to every Bird— / But just a Crumb— to Me— / I dare not / eat it—” — Emily Dickinson
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"I reason, Earth is short..." (301) by Emily Dickinson

March 23, 2016
"I reason that in Heaven — / Somehow, it will be even — / Some new Equation, given — / But, what of that?" — Emily Dickinson
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I'm Nobody! Who are you? (288) by Emily Dickinson

July 15, 2011
"I'm Nobody! Who are you? / Are you — Nobody — Too? / Then there's a pair of us!" — Emily Dickinson
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"It's all I have to bring today..." (26) by Emily Dickinson

April 18, 2011
“This, and my heart, and all the Bees” — Emily Dickinson
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"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain..." (280) by Emily Dickinson

March 16, 2006
"And then a Plank in Reason, broke," — Emily Dickinson