New Born Poems

Because I could not stop death -
He kindly stopped for me -
Organized transport, but just ourselves -
And immortality.

We slowly drove - He knew no haste
And I set aside
My work and my leisure too,
For his civility -

We went to school, where children strove
At Recess - in the Ring -
We spent the grain fields to contemplate -
We passed the setting sun -

Or rather - He passed us -
The Dews drew quivering and chill -
For only Gossamer, my gown -
My Tippet - only Tulle -

We stopped before a house that seemed
Swelling of the floor -
The roof was scarcely visible -
The Cornice - in the ground -

Since then - it's Centuries "- yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first assumed the horses' heads
Were to eternity -

Emily Dickinson is an innovative and talented American poet who wrote nearly 1,800 poems during his short life from 1830 to 1886. Dickinson became publicly known as a poet only after her death because she chose to publish only a handful of her poems, somewhere between seven and twelve years, during his life.

The life of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, a family well known. His grandfather helped found Amherst College and his father, a lawyer, served for many years in the Massachusetts legislature and the Congress of the United States. Dickinson had a brother one year older and a sister three years younger.

As a young girl and teenager Dickinson acquired many friends, some of a lifetime, received approval and attention of his father, and behaved with dignity for a girl in Victorian times. She received a classical education at Amherst Academy and was required by her father reading the Bible. Even though she attended church regularly just for a few years, her Christian foundation remained strong throughout his life.

Dickinson attended nearby Mount Holyoke College for one year, due to many reasons, and was taken home by his brother, Austin. Dickinson family lived in a house overlooking the cemetery of the city, where she is buried, for a few years before moving into the house of his grandfather had built, called "The Homestead."

At home in Amherst, Dickinson became a governess can cook and gardener. She attended local events, became friends with some of his knowledge of the Fathers, and read a number of books given to him by his friends and brother. Most of the books had to be smuggled into the house for fear that his father disapproved.

Emily Dickinson enjoyed the writings of an impressive list of contemporaries such as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. She also read the Victorians, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle , and George Eliot and the Romantic poet Lord Byron. She also likes "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens. When she discovered Shakespeare she asked, "Why is any other book needed?" In her house, she hung portraits of Eliot, Browning, and Carlyle.

Dickinson grew more reclusive in the 1850s. She began writing poetry and has received a favorable response from his friends. Throughout the rest of her life, she adopted the friendly practice of giving the poems to his friends and bouquets of flowers from her garden. His garden was so varied and carefully that she was better known as a gardener of a poet.

During the years of civil war in early 1860, Emily Dickinson wrote over 800 poems, the time of writing the most prolific of his life. During this period Dickinson saw the death of several friends, a teacher, and the declining health of his mother that she had to tend closely. These unfortunate events s.