Lines by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

American poet · 1830–1886

Emily Dickinson wrote nearly eighteen hundred poems, few of them published in her lifetime. Her short lines, dashes and slant rhymes made a new sound in American poetry.

“Hope” is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul —

“Hope” is the thing with feathers, lines 1–2 (J254, Fr314)

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I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you — Nobody — too?

I’m Nobody! Who are you?, lines 1–2 (J288, Fr260)

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