POEMS: INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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