214 [I taste a liquor never brewed-] 1307
216 [Safe in their Alabaster Chambers-] 1307
241 [I like a look ofAgony,] 1308
249 [Wild Nigbts- Wild Nights!] 1308
258 [There's a Certain Slant of Light,] 1309
280 [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,] 1309
303 [The Soul Selects her own Society-] 1310
324 [Some Keep the Sabbath going to Church-] 1310
341 [After great pain, a formal feeling comes-] 1311
348 [I dreaded that first Robin, so,] 1312
441 [This is my letter to the World] 1313
448 [This was a Poet-It is That] 1313
465 [I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-] 1314
501 [This World is not Conclusion.] 1314
520 [I started Early-Took my Dog-] 1315
632 [The Brain-is wider than the Sky-] 1316
650 [Pain-has an Element of Blank-] 1316
709 [Publication-is the Auction] 1316
712 [Because I could not stop for Death-l 1317
754 [My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-] 1318
986 [A narrow Fellow in tbe Grass] 1319
1129 [Tell all the Trutb but tell it slant-) 1320
1545 [The Bible is an antique Volume-] 1320
1732 [My Life closed twice before its close-] 1321
From Letters of Emily Dickinson 1321
April 15, 1862 1321
April 25, 1862 1322
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) 1323
Life in the Iron Mills 1324
Chronology of Works and Events That Shaped American Literatute 1492 to 1870 1359
Credits 1365
Index 1367
Map of tbe United States 1370
Additional Titles oflnterest 1372
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