Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
Emily Dickinson * Track #76 On Poems 1890
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- #1Success
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- #3Rouge Et Noir
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- #4Rouge Gagne
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- #5Glee—The great storm is over (619)
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- #6If I can stop one heart from breaking
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- #7Almost
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- #8The Heart asks Pleasure - first - (536)
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- #9In A Library
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- #10Much Madness is divinest Sense
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- #11I asked no other thing (621)
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- #12The Secret
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- #13I know some lonely Houses off the Road (289)
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- #14Dawn
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- #15The Book Of Martyrs
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- #16The Mystery of Pain
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- #17I taste a liquor never brewed
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- #18A Book
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- #19I had no time to Hate (478)
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- #20Unreturning
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- #21Whether my bark went down at sea
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- #22Belshazzar Had A Letter
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- #23The Brain, within its Groove (556)
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- #24Mine
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- #25Bequest
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- #26Alter! When the Hills do
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- #27Suspense
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- #28Surrender
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- #29If you were coming in the fall
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- #30
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- #31Proof
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- #32Have you got a Brook in your little heart
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- #33Transplanted
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- #34The Outlet (162)
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- #35In Vain
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- #36Renunciation
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- #37Love’s Baptism
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- #38Resurrection
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- #39Apocalypse
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- #40The Wife
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- #41Apotheosis
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- #42New feet within my garden go (99)
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- #43May-Flower
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- #44Why
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- #45The pedigree of honey
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- #46A Service of Song
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- #47The Bee is not afraid
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- #48Summer’s Armies
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- #49The Grass
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- #50A little road not made man
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- #51Summer Shower
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- #52Psalm of the Day
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- #53The Sea Of Sunset
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- #54The Purple Clover
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- #55The Bee
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- #56“Presentiment is that long shadow”
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- #57As Children bid the Guest “Good Night” (133)
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- #58Angels, in the early morning
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- #59So bashful when I spied her! (91)
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- #60Two worlds
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- #61The Mountain sat upon the Plain
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- #62A Day
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- #63The butterfly’s assumption-gown
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- #64The Wind
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- #65Death And Life
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- #66T Was Later When The Summer Went
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- #67Indian Summer
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- #68Autumn
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- #69Beclouded
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- #70I think the Hemlock likes to stand (525)
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- #71There’s a certain Slant of light
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- #72One dignity delays for all
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- #73Too Late
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- #74Astra Castra
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- #75Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
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- #76On this long storm the Rainbow rose
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- #77From The Chrysalis
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- #78Setting Sail
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- #79Look back on time with kindly eyes
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- #80A Train Went Through A Burial Gate
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- #81I died for Beauty — but was scarce
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- #82Troubled About Many Things
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- #83Real
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- #84The Funeral
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- #85I went to thank Her (363)
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- #86I’ve seen a Dying Eye (547)
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- #87Refuge
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- #88I Never Saw a Moor
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- #89Playmates
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- #90To know just how He suffered—would be dear
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- #91The last Night that She lived (1100)
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- #92The First Lesson
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- #93The Bustle In The House
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- #94I reason, Earth is short
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- #95Afraid! Of whom am I afraid?
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- #96Dying
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- #97Two Swimmers Wrestled On A Spar
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- #98The Chariot
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- #99She went as quiet as the Dew
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- #100Resurgam
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- #101Except To Heave She Is Nought
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- #102Death is a Dialogue between
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- #103It was too late for Man
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- #104Along The Potomac
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- #105The Daisy follows soft the Sun
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- #106Emancipation
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- #107Lost
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- #108If I shouldn’t be alive
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- #109Sleep is supposed to be
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- #110I shall know why—when Time is over
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- #111I never lost as much but twice
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Safe in their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson
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The two surviving versions of one of Dickinson’s greatest death poems.
This poem first appeared in 1862 in the Springfield Daily Republican (one of only a handful of Dickinson’s poems to be published in her lifetime) and was originally titled “The Sleeping.” Susan Gilbert, Dickinson’s sister-in-law...
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers Annotated
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers—
Untouched by Morning
And untouched by Noon—
Sleep the meek members of the Resurrection—
Rafter of satin
And Roof of stone
Light laughs the breeze
In her Castle above them—
Babbles the Bee in a stolid Ear
Pipe the Sweet Birds in gorant cadence—
Ah, what sagacity perished here!
Version of 1862
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Safe in their Alabaster Chambers—
Untouched by Morning
And untouched by Noon—
Lie the meek members of the Resurrection—
Rafter of Satin—and Roof of Stone!
Grand go the Years—in the Crescent—above them—
Worlds scoop their Arcs—
And Firmaments—row—
Diadems—drop—and Doges—surrender—
Soundless as dots—on a Disc of Snow—