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It is the Museum’s mission to spark the imagination by amplifying Emily Dickinson’s revolutionary poetic voice from the place she called home.

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His Heart was darker than the starless night
For that there is a morn
But in this black Receptacle
Can be no Bode of Dawn
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dreams are the subtle Dower
That make us rich an Hour -
Then fling us poor
Out of the Purple Door
Into the Precinct raw
Possessed before -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Though we wish the Festival could last Forever, there is still one more day to join us Now! Help us send off the 2026 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival with 2 hybrid programs: emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tell-it-slant-2026
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please check the Festival webpage for location updates for the rest of the weekend: emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tell-it-slan...
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Part 6 of the Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon is live until 12pm ET! Add some poetry to your Saturday morning: www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tell-it-slan...
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Part 6 of the Poetry Marathon live stream will start on a delay! Stay tuned for more updates.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Take a lunch break with us and listen to Dickinson's verse! Part 5 of the Poetry Marathon starts now until ~2:15pm ET. Register and listen: www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tell-it-slan...
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What's the role of an editor? This panel will use the Higginson-Dickinson correspondence to consider the role of the poet as editor or editor as poet today. Live online until ~8:30pm ET. Register and join the stream!: www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tell-it-slan...
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're writing time traveling poetry this afternoon until ~4pm ET! Register and hop on the zoom: www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/slow-tramp-t...
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Porosity of Poetry is now live (until ~8pm ET). Enjoy short readings and a discussion in response to the idea that poetry acts as filter and sponge for the world to enter, reveal, and inspire. Register and join us on the zoom!: www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tell-it-slan...
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Three Perspectives, Three Possibilities: Japanese Poetics and Emily Dickinson is live right now until 4:30! Register online and join the zoom: www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tell-it-slan...
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Part 2 of the Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon is live right now! We'll be reading until ~2pm. Take a poetry break and hop on the zoom with us. Register to receive the zoom link: www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tell-it-slan...
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sing for Autumn — it's Day 2 of the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival! Join us online for a day filled with poetry: emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tell-it-slant-2026
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Take all away -
The only thing worth larceny
Is left - the Immortality -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
That sacred Closet when you sweep -
Entitled “Memory” -
Select a reverential Broom -
And do it silently -

’Twill be a Labor of surprise -
Besides Identity
Of other Interlocutors
A probability -

August the Dust of that Domain -
Unchallenged - let it lie -
You cannot supersede itself,
But it can silence you.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Mind lives on the Heart
Like any Parasite -
If that is full of Meat
The Mind is fat -

But if the Heart omit
Emaciate the Wit -
The Aliment of it
So absolute.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Heart is the Capital of the Mind
The Mind is a single State -
The Heart and the Mind together make
A single Continent -

One - is the Population -
Numerous enough -
This ecstatic Nation
Seek - it is Yourself.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The last of Summer is Delight -
Deterred by Retrospect.
’Tis Ecstasy’s revealed Review -
Enchantment’s Syndicate.

To meet it - nameless as it is -
Without celestial Mail -
Audacious as without a knock
To walk within the Vail.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This dirty - little - Heart
Is freely mine -
I won it with a Bun -
A Freckled shrine -

But eligibly fair
To him who sees
The Visage of the Soul
And not the knees.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Which is the best - the Moon or the Crescent?
Neither - said the Moon -
That is best which is not - Achieve it -
You efface the Sheen -

Not of detention is Fruition -
Shudder to attain.
Transport’s decomposition follows -
He is Prism born.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Spider as an Artist
Has never been employed -
Though his surpassing Merit
Is freely certified

By every Broom and Bridget
Throughout a Christian Land -
Neglected Son of Genius
I take thee by the Hand -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Unto the Whole - how add?
Has “All” a further Realm -
Or Utmost an Ulterior?
Oh, Subsidy of Balm!
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An antiquated Grace
Becomes that cherished Face
Better than prime
Enjoining us to part
We and our pouting Heart
Good friends with time
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I’d rather recollect a Setting
Than own a rising Sun
Though one is beautiful forgetting
And true the other one.

Because in going is a Drama
Staying cannot confer -
To die divinely once a twilight -
Than wane is easier -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Crisis is sweet and yet the Heart
Opon the hither side
Has Dowers of Prospective
To Denizen denied -

Inquire of the closing Rose
Which rapture - she preferred
And she will point you sighing -
To her rescinded Bud -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Escape is such a thankful Word
I often in the Night
Consider it unto myself
No spectacle in sight

Escape - it is the Basket
In which the Heart is caught
When down some awful Battlement
The rest of Life is dropt -

’Tis not to sight the savior -
It is to be the saved -
And that is why I lay my Head
Opon this trusty word -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That short - potential stir
That each can make but once -
That Bustle so illustrious
’Tis almost Consequence -

Is the eclat of Death -
Oh - thou unknown Renown
That not a Beggar would accept
Had he the power to spurn -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Lift it - with the Feathers
Not alone we fly -
Launch it - the aquatic
Not the only sea -
Advocate the Azure
To the lower Eyes -
He has obligation
Who has Paradise -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Luck is not chance -
It’s Toil -
Fortune’s expensive smile
Is earned -
The Father of the Mine
Is that old fashioned Coin
We spurned -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You Cannot take itself
From any Human soul -
That indestructible estate
Enable him to dwell -
Impregnable as Light
That every man behold
But take away as difficult
As undiscovered Gold -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What tenements of Clover
Are fitting for the Bee
What edifices azure
For Butterflies and me
What residences nimble
Arise and evanesce
Without a rhythmic rumor
Or an assaulting guess.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Pink - small - and punctual -
Aromatic - low -
Covert in April -
Candid in May -

Dear to the Moss -
Known to the Knoll -
Next to the Robin
In every human Soul -

Bold little Beauty -
Bedecked with thee
Nature forswears -
Antiquity -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
His Mansion in the Pool
The Frog forsakes -
He rises on a Log
And statements makes -
His Auditors two Worlds
Deducting me -
The Orator of April
Is hoarse Today -
His Mittens at his Feet
No Hand hath he -
His eloquence a Bubble
As Fame should be -
Applaud him to discover
To your chagrin
Demosthenes has vanished
In Waters Green -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
To pile like Thunder to it’s close
Then crumble grand away
While everything created hid
This - would be Poetry -

Or Love - the two coeval come -
We both and neither prove -
Experience either and consume -
For none see God and live -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
How soft this Prison is
How sweet these sullen bars
No Despot but the King of Down
Invented this repose

Of Fate if this is all
Has he no added Realm
A Dungeon but a Kinsman is
Incarceration - Home.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Floss wont save you from an Abyss
But a Rope will -
Notwithstanding a Rope for a Souvenir
Is not beautiful -

But I tell you every step is a Trough -
And every stop a well -
Now will you have the Rope or the Floss?
Prices reasonable -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Whether they have forgotten
Or are forgetting now
Or never remembered -
Safer not to know -

Miseries of conjecture
Are a softer wo
Than a Fact of Iron
Hardened with I know -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My Heart ran so to thee
It would not wait for me
And I affronted grew
And drew away
For whatsoe’er my pace
He first achieve thy Face -
How general a Grace
Allotted two -

Not in malignity
Mentioned I this to thee -
Had he obliquity
Soonest to share
But for the Greed of him -
Boasting my Premium -
Basking in Bethleem
Ere I be there -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
When a Lover is a Beggar
Abject is his Knee -
When a Lover is an Owner
Different is he -

What he begged is then the Beggar -
Oh disparity -
Bread of Heaven resents bestowal
Like an obloquy
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Of Life to own -
From Life to draw -
But never touch the Reservoir -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
How many schemes may die
In one short Afternoon
Entirely unknown
To those they most concern -
The man that was not lost
Because by accident
He varied by a Ribbon’s width
From his accustomed route -
The Love that would not try
Because beside the Door
Some unsuspecting Horse was tied
Surveying his Despair
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
How many schemes may die
In one short Afternoon
Entirely unknown
To those they most concern -
The man that was not lost
Because by accident
He varied by a Ribbon’s width
From his accustomed route -
The Love that would not try
Because beside the Door
Some unsuspecting Horse was tied
Surveying his Despair
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The vastest earthly Day
Is shrunken small
By one Defaulting Face
Behind a Pall -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Go slow, my soul to feed thyself
Opon his rare approach -
Go rapid, lest competing death
Prevail opon the coach,
Go timid, should his testing eye
Determine thee amiss
Go boldly for thou paid’st the price,
Redemption for a kiss.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When Continents expire
The Giants they discarded - are
Promoted to endure -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
While we were fearing it, it came -
But came with less of fear
Because that fearing it so long
Had almost made it fair -

There is a Fitting - a Dismay -
A Fitting - a Despair -
’Tis harder knowing it is Due
Than knowing it is Here.

The Trying on the Utmost
The Morning it is New
Is terribler than wearing it
A whole existence through -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
There’s the Battle of Burgoyne -
Over, every Day,
By the Time that Man and Beast
Put their work away -
“Sunset” sounds majestic -
But that solemn War
Could you comprehend it
You would chastened stare -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
'Twas later when the summer went
Than when the Cricket came -
And yet we knew that gentle Clock
Meant nought but Going Home -
’Twas sooner when the Cricket went
Than when the Winter came
Yet that pathetic Pendulum
Keeps Esoteric Time.
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Lain in Nature - so suffice us
The enchantless Pod
When we advertise existence
For the missing Seed -

Maddest Heart that God created
Cannot move a sod
Pasted by the simple summer
On the Longed for Dead -
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
To break so vast a Heart
Required a Blow as vast -
No Zephyr felled this Cedar straight -
’Twas undeserved Blast -
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