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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley but severe homesickness led her to return home after one year....
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Love
Answer to a Child's Question
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Credo
by Matthew Rohrer
Epithalamium
by Matthew Rohrer
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I Love You
by Sara Teasdale
It Was Raining In Delft
by Peter Gizzi
It's all I have to bring today (26)
by Emily Dickinson
Lullaby
by W. H. Auden
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)
by William Shakespeare
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
by E. E. Cummings
Song to Celia
by Ben Jonson
Sonnets on Love XIII
by Jean de Sponde
True Love
by Robert Penn Warren
Two Loves
by Lord Alfred Douglas
When You are Old
by W. B. Yeats
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Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (249)  
by Emily Dickinson

Wild Nights – Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile – the winds –
To a heart in port –
Done with the compass –
Done with the chart!

Rowing in Eden –
Ah, the sea!
Might I moor – Tonight –
In thee!

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