Like many writers of her day, Emily Dickinson was a virtual unknown during her lifetime. After her death, however, when people discovered the incredible amount of poetry that she had written, Dickinson became celebrated as one of America's greatest poets. Dickinson was notoriously introverted and mostly lived as a recluse, carrying out her friendships almost entirely by written letters. Her work was just as unique; her poetry is written with short lines, occasionally lacked titles, and often used slant rhyme and unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Only a few of her poems were published in her lifetime, but American schoolchildren across the country read her work today.
Chapter 1 SUCCESS.
[Published in "A Masque of Poets"
at the request of "H.H.," the author's
fellow-townswoman and friend.]
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear!
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Chapter 1 SUCCESS.
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Chapter 2 No.2
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Chapter 3 ROUGE ET NOIR.
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Chapter 4 ROUGE GAGNE.
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Chapter 5 No.5
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Chapter 6 No.6
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Chapter 7 ALMOST!
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Chapter 8 No.8
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Chapter 9 No.9
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Chapter 10 IN A LIBRARY.
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Chapter 11 No.11
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Chapter 12 No.12
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Chapter 13 EXCLUSION.
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Chapter 14 THE SECRET.
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Chapter 15 THE LONELY HOUSE.
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Chapter 16 No.16
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Chapter 17 DAWN.
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Chapter 18 THE BOOK OF MARTYRS.
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Chapter 19 THE MYSTERY OF PAIN.
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Chapter 20 No.20
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Chapter 21 A BOOK.
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Chapter 22 No.22
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Chapter 23 UNRETURNING.
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Chapter 24 No.24
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Chapter 25 No.25
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Chapter 26 No.26
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Chapter 27 MINE.
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Chapter 28 BEQUEST.
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Chapter 29 No.29
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Chapter 30 SUSPENSE.
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Chapter 31 SURRENDER.
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Chapter 32 No.32
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Chapter 33 WITH A FLOWER.
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Chapter 34 PROOF.
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Chapter 35 No.35
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Chapter 36 TRANSPLANTED.
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Chapter 37 THE OUTLET.
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Chapter 38 IN VAIN.
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Chapter 39 RENUNCIATION.
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Chapter 40 LOVE'S BAPTISM.
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