What Soft—Cherubic Creatures (401)
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- #66Father, I Bring Thee Not Myself
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- #80A Murmur in the Trees—to note (416)
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- #81Morning—is the place for Dew
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- #82To my quick ear the leaves conferred
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- #84High From The Earth I Heard A Bird
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- #85Cobwebs
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- #86A Well
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- #87To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
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- #88The Wind (Version 2)
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- #89A Dew Sufficed Itself
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- #90The Woodpecker
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- #91Snake
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- #92Could I but ride indefinite (661)
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- #93The Moon
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- #94The Bat
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- #95The Balloon
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- #96Evening
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- #97Cocoon
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- #98Sunset
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- #99Aurora
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- #100Aftermath
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- #101This World is not Conclusion
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- #102We Learn In The Retreating
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- #103They say that ”Time assuages”—
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- #104We Cover Thee—Sweet Face
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- #105Ending
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- #106The Stimulus, Beyond The Grave
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- #107Given in Marriage unto Thee
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- #108That Such Have Died Enables Us
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- #109They won’t frown always—some sweet Day
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- #110Immortality
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- #111The Distance That The Dead Have Gone
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- #112How Dare The Robins Sing
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- #113Death
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- #114Unwarned
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- #115Each That We Lose Takes Part Of Us
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- #116Not Any Higher Stands The Grave
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- #118The Spirit is the Conscious Ear
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- #120Bless God, he went as soldiers
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- #126Me! Come! My dazzled face
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- #135So proud she was to die
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- #136Farewell
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- #137The dying need but little, dear
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- #139The Soul Should Always Stand Ajar
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- #140Three Weeks Passed Since I Had Seen Her
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- #141I breathed enough to learn the trick
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- #142I Wonder If The Sepulchre
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- #145Before the ice is in the pools
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- #146Adrift! A little boat adrift!
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- #148We Never Know We Go, When We Are Going
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- #154A toad can die of light!
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- #156A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
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What Soft—Cherubic Creatures (401) by Emily Dickinson
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This poem mocks the type of women that Emily Dickinson despised — over-refined, genteel, aloof and snobbish. The poet achieves this through clever use of imagery — for example, convictions are described as “Dimity”, the latter a flimsy insubstantial fabric like these women. In the last stanza the p...
What Soft—Cherubic Creatures (401) Annotated
What Soft—Cherubic Creatures—
These Gentlewomen are—
One would as soon assault a Plush—
Or violate a Star—
Such Dimity Convictions—
A Horror so refined
Of freckled Human Nature—
Of Deity—ashamed—
It's such a common—Glory—
A Fisherman's—Degree—
Redemption—Brittle Lady—
Be so—ashamed of Thee—