A Clock stopped 115
A little East of Jordan … worsted God 59
A Route of Evanescence 209
A still — Volcano — Life — 16, 29, 125
A wife — at Daybreak I shall be — 104, 168
A wounded deer leaps highest 260
After great pain … the Hour of Lead 118
All overgrown by cunning moss … The little cage of ‘Currer Bell’ 85
As One does Sickness over 114
Because I could not stop for Death … ‘tis Centuries … Swelling of the Ground 33, 139, 227, 260, 405, 470
Before I got my eye put out 128
Bereaved of all, I went abroad 126–7
By such and such an offering 89
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? 16, 148
Dying! Dying in the night! 115, 123
Elysium is as far as to … What fortitude 13
Experiment to me 50
Exultation is the going 11, 260
‘Faith’ is a fine invention 43
Finding is the first Act … Jason 150
From his slim palace in the dust 157
Further in Summer than the Birds 209
He fumbles at your Soul … Winds take Forests in their Paws 117
He touched me, so I live to know 94
Her breast is fit for pearls 396
Her sovreign People 143
How fleet — how indiscreet an one — 163
How happy is the little Stone 208
I am alive I guess 94
I cannot dance upon my toes … full as Opera — 98, 348, 470
I died for Beauty 259
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind — 116
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain … Boots of Lead 94, 115, 116
I felt my life with both my hands 94, 408
I fit for them — I seek the Dark … A purer food 125, 136, 333
I found the words to every thought … Can Blaze be shown in Cochineal 404, 470
I have never seen ‘Volcanoes’ — … when upon a pain Titanic 119
I like a look of Agony … Men do not sham Convulsion 115, 124, 260
I lived on Dread — 116
I lost a World 471
I never lost as much but twice — 260
I often passed the village … Trust the loving promise 91–2
I shall not murmur if at last 152–3
I taste a liquor never brewed … little tippler / Leaning against the — Sun 109, 251
I tend my flowers for thee 96
I think I was enchanted 84
I tie my Hat … Existence … struck my ticking … simulate … Bomb … calm 7–8, 21, 93–4, 114, 115, 124, 136, 348, 354
see also ‘A whole existence through’ from ‘While we were fearing it’ 126
I took one Draught of Life — 140, see Doherty, Pete (main index)
I was the slightest in the House — … So stationed I could catch the mint 82
If ever the lid gets off my head 116
If it had no pencil 102–3
I’m Nobody! Who are you? … admiring Bog! 7, 143, 145, 262
I’m ‘Wife’ — I’ve finished that 103, 260
It dont sound so terrible — quite — as it did—125
It sifts from leaden sieves (‘Snow’) 209
It struck me every day … The maddest — quickest — by — 117–18, 131
It was given to me by the Gods — 34–5
It would have starved a Gnat — 27
I’ve nothing Else, to bring, you know — 108
Just lost, when I was saved 263–5
Mine — by the Right of the White Election! 143, 255
More Life — went out … Ethiop within 40, 113, 165
Much madness is divinest sense 260
My first well Day — since many ill — … My loss 114, 439
My life closed twice before its close — 59, 255
My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun — 6, 32, 55–6, 93, 136, 255, 348
My loss, by sickness — Was it Loss?, see My first well day 114
My Wheel is in the dark 81
Nature — sometimes sears a Sapling — 116
Nobody knows this little rose 99
Not Sickness stains the Brave 219
Oh, what an afternoon for heaven, When ‘Bronte’ entered there! 26
Oh Shadow on the Grass 142
One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — …The Body — borrows a Revolver — 117
One Sister have I in our house 90–1, 267, 331
On my volcano grows the Grass … Fire rocks 17, 168
On this wondrous sea 74
Papa above 59
Perception of an Object costs 129–30, 139
Presentiment — is that long shadow — on the Lawn — 116
Publication — is the Auction 142
Rearrange a ‘Wife’s’ affection! … Amputate my freckled bosom! 137–8, 397
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers 109, 146, 152, 446
Severer Service of myself … forget the color of the Day 128
She dealt her pretty words like blades 227, 275
She rose to his requirement, dropped 25–6
Show me Eternity, and I will show you Memory — … Infinity 217
‘Snow’, see ‘It sifts from Leaden Sieves’ 209
Still own thee — still thou art 213–14
Struck, was I, nor yet by Lightning — 124
Success is counted sweetest 207–8, 258, 374
Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy 402
Tell the truth but tell it slant 94
That Such have died enable Us 355
The Birds begun at Four o’clock … independent Extasy 155
The Brain within its Groove 117
The Devil — had he fidelity 333, 462
The farthest Thunder … Torrid Noons 124
The going from a world we know 217, 451
The reticent volcano keeps … buckled lips 7, 94, 107, 119, 124, 260
The Soul selects her own Society 4–5, 60, 82, 143
The Soul that hath a Guest 5, 401
The Soul’s distinct connection … Flash — / And Click — and Suddenness 402
The Soul’s Superior instants … 21
Eternity’s disclosure 401
Mortal Abolition 405
The Whole of it came not at once — … Murder by degrees 117
The World — stands — solemner — to me — … A modesty befits the soul 138
Their dappled importunity 206
There came a Day at Summer’s full 259
There is a languor of the life … fog 118
They shut me up in Prose — 27–8
This Consciousness that is aware … Adventure most unto itself 333
This is my letter to the world 23, 36, 110, 273
This was a Poet — It is That … Exterior — to Time — 4
Though the great Waters sleep … No vacillating God 218
Tis so appalling — it exhilarates — 138
Title divine — is mine! … 58, 107, 108, 341
Born — Bridalled — Shrouded — in a day 28, 59, 330, 331
The Wife — without the sign 7, 58, 107, 108, 143, 182, 341
To hang our head ostensibly … such was not the posture 165
Twas just this time … altitude of me — 143
Twas the old — road — through pain — … close prest 404
Two swimmers wrestled on the spar 103, 260
Volcanoes be in Sicily … Vesuvius at Home 40, 105, 255, 463
Water is taught by thirst … by throe 115
We dream — it is good we are dreaming — 139
We offer you our cups, stintless as to the bee the lily, her 269–70
While we were fearing it, it came — 126
Who abdicated Ambush … Impregnable we are — 404
Wild Nights — Wild Nights! 23, 94, 96, 391, 402