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Poems: Third Series

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This volume of poems contains the Third series of Dickinson's complete poetry:
I. Life, consisting of 55 poems,
II. Love, consisting of 22 poems,
III. Nature, consisting of 29 poems, and
IV. Time and Eternity, consisting of 59 poems.

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Chapters

Chapter 1
Preface
02:34
Chapter 2
I. REAL RICHES.
00:39
Chapter 3
II. SUPERIORITY TO FATE.
00:32
Chapter 4
III. HOPE.
00:48
Chapter 5
IV. FORBIDDEN FRUIT. I.
00:34
Chapter 6
V. FORBIDDEN FRUIT. II.
00:43
Chapter 7
VI. A WORD.
00:32
Chapter 8
VII. [To venerate the simple days]
00:43
Chapter 9
VIII. LIFE'S TRADES.
00:37
Chapter 10
IX. [Drowning is not so pitiful]
01:02
Chapter 11
X. [How still the bells in steeples stand]
00:33
Chapter 12
XI. [If the foolish call them 'flowers']
01:08
Chapter 13
XII. A SYLLABLE.
00:25
Chapter 14
XIII. PARTING.
00:37
Chapter 15
XIV. ASPIRATION.
00:37
Chapter 16
XV. THE INEVITABLE.
00:49
Chapter 17
XVI. A BOOK.
00:38
Chapter 18
XVII. [Who has not found the heaven below]
00:38
Chapter 19
XVIII. A PORTRAIT.
00:45
Chapter 20
XIX. I HAD A GUINEA GOLDEN.
02:04
Chapter 21
XX. SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
00:50
Chapter 22
XXI. [Few get enough, — enough is one]
00:36
Chapter 23
XXII. [Upon the gallows hung a wretch]
00:51
Chapter 24
XXIII. THE LOST THOUGHT.
00:43
Chapter 25
XXIV. RETICENCE.
00:52
Chapter 26
XXV. WITH FLOWERS.
00:38
Chapter 27
XXVI. [The farthest thunder that I heard]
01:14
Chapter 28
XXVII. [On the bleakness of my lot]
00:45
Chapter 29
XXVIII. CONTRAST.
00:38
Chapter 30
XXIX. FRIENDS.
00:29
Chapter 31
XXX. FIRE.
00:33
Chapter 32
XXXI. A MAN.
00:50
Chapter 33
XXXII. VENTURES.
00:39
Chapter 34
XXXIII. GRIEFS.
02:01
Chapter 35
XXXIV. [I have a king who does not speak]
01:30
Chapter 36
XXXV. DISENCHANTMENT.
00:34
Chapter 37
XXXVI. LOST FAITH.
00:34
Chapter 38
XXXVII. LOST JOY.
00:36
Chapter 39
XXXVIII. [I worked for chaff, and earning wheat]
00:32
Chapter 40
XXXIX. [Life, and Death, and Giants]
00:47
Chapter 41
XL. ALPINE GLOW.
00:50
Chapter 42
XLI. REMEMBRANCE.
00:48
Chapter 43
XLII. [To hang our head ostensibly]
00:53
Chapter 44
XLIII. THE BRAIN.
00:46
Chapter 45
XLIV. [The bone that has no marrow]
01:00
Chapter 46
XLV. THE PAST.
00:44
Chapter 47
XLVI. [To help our bleaker parts]
00:28
Chapter 48
XLVII. [What soft, cherubic creatures]
00:49
Chapter 49
XLVIII. DESIRE.
00:43
Chapter 50
XLIX. PHILOSOPHY.
00:27
Chapter 51
L. POWER.
00:35
Chapter 52
LI. [A modest lot, a fame petite]
00:39
Chapter 53
LII. [Is bliss, then, such abyss]
00:50
Chapter 54
LIII. EXPERIENCE.
00:44
Chapter 55
LIV. THANKSGIVING DAY.
01:00
Chapter 56
LV. CHILDISH GRIEFS.
00:41
Chapter 57
I. CONSECRATION.
00:36
Chapter 58
II. LOVE'S HUMILITY.
00:47
Chapter 59
III. LOVE.
00:30
Chapter 60
IV. SATISFIED.
01:17
Chapter 61
V. WITH A FLOWER.
00:45
Chapter 62
VI. SONG.
00:49
Chapter 63
VII. LOYALTY.
00:46
Chapter 64
VIII. [To lose thee, sweeter than to gain]
00:43
Chapter 65
IX. [Poor little heart]
00:50
Chapter 66
X. FORGOTTEN.
01:04
Chapter 67
XI. [I've got an arrow here]
00:38
Chapter 68
XII. THE MASTER.
00:48
Chapter 69
XIII. [Heart, we will forget him]
00:35
Chapter 70
XIV. [Father, I bring thee not myself]
00:38
Chapter 71
XV. [We outgrow love like other things]
00:32
Chapter 72
XVI. [Not with a club the heart is broken]
00:43
Chapter 73
XVII. WHO?
00:36
Chapter 74
XVIII. [He touched me, so I live to know]
01:12
Chapter 75
XIX. DREAMS.
00:36
Chapter 76
XX. NUMEN LUMEN.
01:18
Chapter 77
XXI. LONGING.
01:16
Chapter 78
XXII. WEDDED.
00:35
Chapter 79
I. NATURE'S CHANGES.
01:00
Chapter 80
II. THE TULIP.
00:32
Chapter 81
III. [A light exists in spring]
01:12
Chapter 82
IV. THE WAKING YEAR.
01:07
Chapter 83
V. TO MARCH.
01:34
Chapter 84
VI. MARCH.
00:54
Chapter 85
VII. DAWN.
00:27
Chapter 86
VIII. [A murmur in the trees to note]
01:19
Chapter 87
IX. [Morning is the place for dew]
00:29
Chapter 88
X. [To my quick ear the leaves conferred]
00:43
Chapter 89
XI. A ROSE.
00:35
Chapter 90
XII. [High from the earth I heard a bird]
01:30
Chapter 91
XIII. COBWEBS.
00:46
Chapter 92
XIV. A WELL.
01:44
Chapter 93
XV. [To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee]
00:35
Chapter 94
XVI. THE WIND.
00:44
Chapter 95
XVII. [A dew sufficed itself]
00:52
Chapter 96
XVIII. THE WOODPECKER.
00:25
Chapter 97
XIX. A SNAKE.
00:33
Chapter 98
XX. [Could I but ride indefinite]
00:57
Chapter 99
XXI. THE MOON.
01:00
Chapter 100
XXII. THE BAT.
00:53
Chapter 101
XXIII. THE BALLOON.
01:31
Chapter 102
XXIV. EVENING.
01:07
Chapter 103
XXV. COCOON.
00:37
Chapter 104
XXVI. SUNSET.
00:36
Chapter 105
XXVII. AURORA.
01:08
Chapter 106
XXVIII. THE COMING OF NIGHT.
01:34
Chapter 107
XXIX. AFTERMATH.
00:39
Chapter 108
I. [This world is not conclusion]
00:47
Chapter 109
II. [We learn in the retreating]
00:39
Chapter 110
III. [They say that 'time assuages']
00:43
Chapter 111
IV. [We cover thee, sweet face.]
01:03
Chapter 112
V. ENDING.
00:48
Chapter 113
VI. [The stimulus, beyond the grave]
00:37
Chapter 114
VII. [Given in marriage unto thee]
00:52
Chapter 115
VIII. [That such have died enables us]
00:37
Chapter 116
IX. [They won't frown always]
00:54
Chapter 117
X. IMMORTALITY.
00:47
Chapter 118
XI. [The distance that the dead have gone]
00:51
Chapter 119
XII. [How dare the robins sing]
00:56
Chapter 120
XIII. DEATH.
00:54
Chapter 121
XIV. UNWARNED.
01:16
Chapter 122
XV. [Each that we lose takes part of us]
00:36
Chapter 123
XVI. [Not any higher stands the grave]
00:47
Chapter 124
XVII. ASLEEP.
00:56
Chapter 125
XVIII. THE SPIRIT.
00:52
Chapter 126
XIX. THE MONUMENT.
00:42
Chapter 127
XX. [Bless God, he went as soldiers]
00:41
Chapter 128
XXI. [Immortal is an ample word]
00:40
Chapter 129
XXII. [Where every bird is bold to go]
00:27
Chapter 130
XXIII. [The grave my little cottage is]
00:45
Chapter 131
XXIV. [This was in the white of the year]
00:43
Chapter 132
XXV. [Sweet hours have perished here]
00:39
Chapter 133
XXVI. [Me! Come! My dazzled face]
00:57
Chapter 134
XXVII. INVISIBLE.
00:49
Chapter 135
XXVIII. [I wish I knew that woman's name]
00:43
Chapter 136
XXIX. TRYING TO FORGET.
01:06
Chapter 137
XXX. [I felt a funeral in my brain]
01:12
Chapter 138
XXXI. [I meant to find her when I came]
00:56
Chapter 139
XXXII. WAITING.
00:43
Chapter 140
XXXIII. [A sickness of this world it most occasions]
00:43
Chapter 141
XXXIV. [Superfluous were the sun]
00:42
Chapter 142
XXXV. [So proud she was to die]
00:38
Chapter 143
XXXVI. FAREWELL.
00:56
Chapter 144
XXXVII. [The dying need but little, dear]
00:41
Chapter 145
XXXVIII. DEAD.
00:48
Chapter 146
XXXIX. [The soul should always stand ajar]
00:43
Chapter 147
XL. [Three weeks passed since I had seen her]
00:51
Chapter 148
XLI. [I breathed enough to learn the trick]
00:42
Chapter 149
XLII. [I wonder if the sepulchre]
00:31
Chapter 150
XLIII. JOY IN DEATH.
00:40
Chapter 151
XLIV. [If I may have it when it's dead]
00:53
Chapter 152
XLV. [Before the ice is in the pools]
00:58
Chapter 153
XLVI. DYING.
01:01
Chapter 154
XLVII. [Adrift! A little boat adrift!]
00:57
Chapter 155
XLVIII. [There's been a death in the opposite house]
01:20
Chapter 156
XLIX. [We never know we go]
00:39
Chapter 157
L. THE SOUL'S STORM.
00:55
Chapter 158
LI. [Water is taught by thirst]
00:35
Chapter 159
LII. THIRST.
00:37
Chapter 160
LIII. [A clock stopped — not the mantel's]
01:01
Chapter 161
LIV. CHARLOTTE BRONTË'S GRAVE.
01:14
Chapter 162
LV. [A toad can die of light!]
00:37
Chapter 163
LVI. [Far from love the Heavenly Father]
00:47
Chapter 164
LVII. SLEEPING.
00:48
Chapter 165
LVIII. RETROSPECT.
01:16
Chapter 166
LIX. ETERNITY.
00:55

Poems: Third Series

Chapters

Preface

I. REAL RICHES.

II. SUPERIORITY TO FATE.

III. HOPE.

IV. FORBIDDEN FRUIT. I.

V. FORBIDDEN FRUIT. II.

VI. A WORD.

VII. [To venerate the simple days]

VIII. LIFE'S TRADES.

IX. [Drowning is not so pitiful]

X. [How still the bells in steeples stand]

XI. [If the foolish call them 'flowers']

XII. A SYLLABLE.

XIII. PARTING.

XIV. ASPIRATION.

XV. THE INEVITABLE.

XVI. A BOOK.

XVII. [Who has not found the heaven below]

XVIII. A PORTRAIT.

XIX. I HAD A GUINEA GOLDEN.

XX. SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

XXI. [Few get enough, — enough is one]

XXII. [Upon the gallows hung a wretch]

XXIII. THE LOST THOUGHT.

XXIV. RETICENCE.

XXV. WITH FLOWERS.

XXVI. [The farthest thunder that I heard]

XXVII. [On the bleakness of my lot]

XXVIII. CONTRAST.

XXIX. FRIENDS.

XXX. FIRE.

XXXI. A MAN.

XXXII. VENTURES.

XXXIII. GRIEFS.

XXXIV. [I have a king who does not speak]

XXXV. DISENCHANTMENT.

XXXVI. LOST FAITH.

XXXVII. LOST JOY.

XXXVIII. [I worked for chaff, and earning wheat]

XXXIX. [Life, and Death, and Giants]

XL. ALPINE GLOW.

XLI. REMEMBRANCE.

XLII. [To hang our head ostensibly]

XLIII. THE BRAIN.

XLIV. [The bone that has no marrow]

XLV. THE PAST.

XLVI. [To help our bleaker parts]

XLVII. [What soft, cherubic creatures]

XLVIII. DESIRE.

XLIX. PHILOSOPHY.

L. POWER.

LI. [A modest lot, a fame petite]

LII. [Is bliss, then, such abyss]

LIII. EXPERIENCE.

LIV. THANKSGIVING DAY.

LV. CHILDISH GRIEFS.

I. CONSECRATION.

II. LOVE'S HUMILITY.

III. LOVE.

IV. SATISFIED.

V. WITH A FLOWER.

VI. SONG.

VII. LOYALTY.

VIII. [To lose thee, sweeter than to gain]

IX. [Poor little heart]

X. FORGOTTEN.

XI. [I've got an arrow here]

XII. THE MASTER.

XIII. [Heart, we will forget him]

XIV. [Father, I bring thee not myself]

XV. [We outgrow love like other things]

XVI. [Not with a club the heart is broken]

XVII. WHO?

XVIII. [He touched me, so I live to know]

XIX. DREAMS.

XX. NUMEN LUMEN.

XXI. LONGING.

XXII. WEDDED.