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  1. Laura's Reviews: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886): A Brief Biography by Cynthia Dickinson, The Emily Dick fb.me/21QeN4H2q
  2. From Efrat Ben Zur's new album "Robin" in which she sets 9 Emily Dickinson poems to music.... fb.me/1rsR7UPHF
  3. emilydickinsonmuseum.org/node/356 fb.me/15e9r1vgU
  4. “I went to see Sue and arrived home at 9 – found Father in great agitation and mother and Vinnie in tears, for fear he would kill me.” 1851
  5. “How precious the grave, when aught that we love is laid there, and affection would fain go too, if that the lost were lonely.” 1850
  6. “the hour of the evening is sad–once my study hour... the scholar at school alone, makes the tears come, and I cannot brush them away.” 1850
  7. looking around my kitchen, and praying for kind deliverance... My kitchen, I think I called it, God forbid that it was, or shall be my own.”
  8. “Father and Austin still clamor for food, and like a martyr I am feeding them. Wouldn't you love to see me in these bonds of great despair..
  9. “Christ is calling everyone here, all my companions have answered... and I am standing alone in rebellion, and growing very careless.” 1850
  10. “The voice of love I heeded, tho' seeming not to; the voice of affliction is louder, more earnest, and needs it's friends” 1850
  11. or else we'll pull society up to the roots, and plant it in a different place.” 1850
  12. “the world is sleeping in ignorance and error, sir, and we must be crowing cocks, and singing larks, and a rising sun to awake her...
  13. “If all these leaves were altars, and on every one a prayer that Currer Bell might be saved – and you were God – would you answer it?” 1849
  14. theofipress.webs.com/emilydickinson… fb.me/12FmBx8lO
  15. “Gratitude is poor as poverty itself—& the “10,000 thanks” so often cited, seem like faintest shadows, when I try to stamp them here” 1849
  16. it seemed to me not quite becoming – in a bird so lowly as myself – to claim admittance to an Eyrie, & conversation with it's king.” 1849
  17. “A little condescending, & sarcastic, your Valentine to me, I thought; a little like an Eagle, stooping to salute a Wren...
  18. ...and we are obliged to walk quite a distance to find them but they repay us by their sweet smiles and fragrance.” 1848
  19. “There are not many wild flowers near, for the girls have driven them to a distance...
  20. “I could not bear to leave teachers and companions before the end of the term and go home to be dosed and receive the physician daily.” 1848