Af indholdet: A Bird came down the Walk - ; A Dying Tiger - moaned for Drink - ; A great Hope fell ; A narrow Fellow in the Grass ; A solemn thing - it was - I said - ; A still - Volcano - Life - ; A Wife - at Daybreak I shall be - ; A word is dead ; A Wounded Deer - leaps highest - ; After a great pain, a formal feeling comes - ; Again - his voice is at the door - ; Ample make this Bed - ; As if I asked a common Alms ; As if some little Arctic flower ; At least, it solaces to know ; Because I could not stop for Death - ; Blazing in Gold and quenching in Purple ; Crumbling is not an instant's Act ; Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? ; "Faith" is a fine invention ; Fame is a bee ; Forbidden fruit a flavor has ; Forget! The lady with the Amulet ; Frigid and sweet Her parting Face - ; God made a little Gentian ; He fumbles at your Soul ; He put the Belt around my life - ; He scanned it - staggered - ; He showed me Hights I never saw - ; Heart! We will forget him! ; Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night ; "Hope" is the thing with feathers - ; How many times these low feet staggered - ; I am afraid to own a Body - ; I asked no other thing - ; I cannot dance upon my Toes - ; I cannot live with You - ; I felt a Cleaving in my Mind - ; I felt a Funeral, in my Brain ; I had not minded - Walls - ; I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - ; I held af Jewel in my fingers - ; I never lost as much but twice ; I never saw a Moor - ; I pay - in Satin Cash - ; I reckon - when I count at all - ; I shall know why - when Time is over - ; I shall not murmur if at last ; I showed her Hights she never saw - ; I stepped from Plank to Plank ; I taste a liqour never brewed - ; I thought that nature was enough ; I took one Draught of Life - ; I would not paint - a picture - ; If all the griefs I am to have ; I'm ceded - I've stopped being Theirs - ; I'm Nobody! Who are you? ; I'm "wife" - I've finished that - ; It dropped so low - in my Regard - ; It sifts from Leaden Sieves - ; It was given to me by the Gods - ; It was not Death, for I stood up ; It would never be Common - more - I said - ; Knock with tremor - ; Like Eyes that looked on Wastes - ; Me from Myself - to banish - ; Mine - by the Right of the White Election! ; Much Madness is divinest Sense - ; My friend must be a Bird - ; My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - ; Myself was formed - a Carpenter - ; Nature assigns the Sun - ; No matter - now - Sweet - ; Now I knew I lost her - ; Of Course - I prayed - ; On a Columnar Self - ; On my volcano grows the Grass ; One sister have I in our house ; Ourselves were wed one summer - dear - ; Pain - has an Element of Blank - ; Perhaps I asked too large - ; Publication - is the Auction ; Quite empty, quite at rest ; Rearrange a "Wife's" affection! ; Safe in their Alabast Champers - ; She dealt her pretty words like Blades - ; She rose to His Requirement - dropt ; She sweeps with many-colored Brooms - ; So bashful when I spied her! ; So give me back to Death - ; Soft as the massacre of Suns ; Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - ; Soto! Explore thyself! ; Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music - ; Success is counted sweetest ; Surgeons must be very careful ; Sweet hours have perished here ; Tell all the truth but tell it slant - ; That Distance was between Us ; The Bustle in a House