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Emily Dickinson

Born in 1830 in Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson lived in almost total physical isolation from the outside world and is now linked with Walt Whitman as founders of a unique American poetic voice...
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	FURTHER READING


		Poems about Rivers
		A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

		A Thought of the Nile by Leigh Hunt

		Afton Water by Robert Burns

		In Passing by Stanley Plumly

		Man in Stream by Rosanna Warren

		Oarlock, Oar (Y, W, V, U, F) by Katrina Vandenberg

		Part of Eve's Discussion by Marie Howe

		Rückenfigur by Susan Howe

		Somewhere between here and Belen by Jay Wright

		South by Jack Gilbert

		Summer Night, Riverside by Sara Teasdale

		The Other Side of the River by Xi Chuan

		Vague Cadence by Geoffrey G. O'Brien

		Written on the Banks of the Arun by Charlotte Smith

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The Outlet (162)
by Emily Dickinson

My river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I'll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me!

c. 1860

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