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ROSE TERRY COOKE
Blue-beard's Closet 350
HENRY TIMROD
Charleston 352
Ethnogenesis 353
La Belle Juive 356
Ode Sung at Magnolia Cemetery 357
HELEN HUNT JACKSON
Her Eyes 358
EMILY DICKINSON
49 I never lost as much but twice 358
67 Success is counted sweetest 359
71 A throe upon the features 359
76 Exultation is the going 359
108 Surgeons must be very careful 360
130 These are the days when Birds come back 360
146 On such a night 360
I53 Dust is the only Secret 361
185 "Faith" is a fine invention 362
187 How many times these low feet staggered 362
189 It's such a little thing to weep 362
201 Two swimmers wrestled on the spar 362
210 The thought beneath so slight a film 363
211 Come slowly-Eden! 363
214 I taste a liquor never brewed 363
216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (1859 and 1861) 364
234 You're right-"the way is narrow" 364
241 I like a look of Agony 365
249 Wild Nights-Wild Nights! 365
254 "Hope" is the thing with feathers 365
258 There's a certain Slant of light 366
280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 366
287 A Clock Stopped 367
288 I'm Nobody! Who are you? 367
301 I reason, Earth is short 368
303 The Soul selects her own Society 368
305 The difference between Despair 368
315 He fumbles at your Soul 369
324 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church 369
326 I cannot dance upon my Toes 369
341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes 370
346 Not probable-The barest Chance 370
352 Perhaps I asked too large 371
355 'Tis Opposites-entice 371