#⌕ ⎯ emily dickinson

[minootiae]

"Hope" is the thing with feathers

by Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm - That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land - And on the strangest Sea - Yet - never - in Extremity, It asked a crumb - of me.

[mournfulroses]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert featured in The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson

[flowerytale]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Dr. and Mrs. J.G. Holland (1858)

[sapphicweisz]

[petaltexturedskies]

Emily Dickinson in a letter to Elizabeth Holland wr. c. 20 January 1856

[wedarkacademia]

[elizabeth-stone]

i audibly GASPED THIS IS TOO GOOD

[sfsolstice]

Emily Dickinson, from The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

[rizsnt]

if i can stop one heart from breaking — emily dickinson

[mirefireflies]

Agatha All Along / Because I could not stop for Death — Emily Dickinson

[soracities]

Emily Dickinson, from Poem #1320 ("Dear March--Come in--"), The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson [ID'd]

[mournfulroses]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson

[flowerytale]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mary Bowles

[seraphinesaintclair]

Emily Dickinson, “Ghosts.”

[petaltexturedskies]

Emily Dickinson in a letter to Catherine Sweetser wr. c. February 1870

[stillgotscars]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Catherine May Scott wr. c. August 1848