Hope for the sake of hope is not hope itself. Some people hope because they cannot bear the alternative. That can end up in ...

The name was Emily Dickinson. Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have been ... sympathy with the life of nature:-- A bird came down the walk; He did not know I saw; He bit ...

Brilliant and beautiful transcripts of bird-life and of flower-life ... a characteristic associated with pure lyric poetry, and yet Emily Dickinson's transcendental humor is one of the deep ...

Emily Dickinson has repeated some clear patterns in the poem A Bird, came down the Walk. Dickinson has divided the poem into five stanzas, where each one is four lines long and has a rhyme scheme ...

In a brilliant new book, “Natural Magic,” Renée Bergland brings Emily Dickinson and Charles ... Now consider a Dickinson poem: A Bird, came down the Walk — / He did not know I saw ...

By comparison, Emily Dickinson’s known epistolary output ... nature accomplishes effortlessly and on a far grander scale. In her poem “A Bird, came down the Walk,” Dickinson offers a ...

Swampscott Conservancy Next month is National Poetry Month — 30 days to celebrate poets and poetry! New England has had its share of famed poets — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, ...

Passionate, astute, concentrated. The poems of Emily Dickinson (1830–86) have marked her out as one of the great American poets and she has been placed by the critic Harold Bloom as a key figure ...