Emily+Dickenson

-Alex Ashman Emily Elisabeth Dickinson, an American poet, was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She lived a very reclusive life. After studying a the Amherst academy for seven years of her youth she went to the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. She then returned to her house and stayed mostly in her room and refused to make contact with any visitors. After her death in 1886 her sister, Lavinia, found all of her poems Fewer than a dozen of her almost 1,800 poems were ever published. The first collection of her poems were published in 1890 by personal acquaintances who heavily edited the content. The complete collection of her poetry became available in 1955. Despite skepticism Dickinson is now considered as a Major American poet.

code The Only Ghost

The only ghost I ever saw Was dressed in mechlin, --so; He wore no sandal on his foot, And stepped like flakes of snow. His gait was soundless, like the bird, But rapid, like the roe; His fashions quaint, mosaic, Or, haply, mistletoe.

Hi conversation seldom, His laughter like the breeze That dies away in dimples Among the pensive trees. Our interview was transient, -- Of me, himself was shy; And God forbid I look behind Since that appalling day!

So Proud She Was

So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed.

So satisfied to go  Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

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