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Emily Dickinson / edited by Frances Schoonmaker Bolin ; illustrated by Chi Chung.
LIBRA - Rare PS1541 .A1 1994 Capps Dickinson copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
- Series:
- Poetry for young people
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's poetry, American.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Capps, Jack L. (donor) (Capps Dickinson Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 48 pages : colored illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Sterling Pub. Co. ; Distributed in Great Britain and Europe by Cassell PLC Villiers House ; Distributed in Australia by Capricorn Link Pty, [1994]
- Summary:
- This is a collection of poems by Emily Dickinson, who used words to paint vivid pictures.
- Contents:
- Hope is the thing with feathers
- It's all I have to bring today
- I started early, took my dog
- I'm nobody! Who are you?
- I hide myself withing my flower
- I dwell in Possibility
- Will there really be a morning?
- I'll tell you how hte sun rose
- She sweeps with many-colored brooms
- I know some lonely houses off the road
- The moon was but a chin of gold
- Pink, small, and punctual
- His bill an auger is
- An everywhere of silver
- I like to see it lap the miles
- A fuzzy fellow without feet
- It sifts from leaden sieves
- A narrow fellow in the grass
- Dear March, come in!
- Bee, I'm expecting you!
- The grass so little has to do
- A bird came down the walk
- The bee is not afraid of me
- A soft sea washed around the house
- To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
- The pedigree of honey
- Forbidden fruit a flavor has
- The wind begun to rock the grass
- The morns are meeker than they were
- I have not told my garden yet
- My river rns to thee
- I never saw a moor
- There is no frigate like a book
- If I can stop one heart from breaking
- A word is dead
- In this short life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 48) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2006 by Brigadier General Jack L. Capps.
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy has dustjacket.
- ISBN:
- 0806906359
- 9780806906355
- 1402743270
- 9781402743276
- OCLC:
- 30399707
- Online:
- Publisher description
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