The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series Two
Love, Poem 7
by Emily Dickinson
Wild nights! Wild nights!
Wild nights! Wild nights!
A comparison of love and friendship.
A children’s counting poem about elephants.
The thoughtful fish saves his two less-thoughtful brothers, and they all return to a safer river.
I noticed people disappeared
A reflection on one who is gone.
He sees days slipping from him that were the best for what they were.
A poem about the speaker as a piper who writes his songs down so that every child may enjoy them.
The author gives an account of a runaway slave who escapes his master’s beatings.
A robin has a meal under an orange-tree.
Shylock warns Lancelot about Bassanio. Jessica waits patiently for her chance to leave.
A story about the animals in the Wet Wild Woods and how the cat that walked helped domesticate all the wild animals.
A father and child discuss death.
"The lake’s dark breast"
The speaker talks of her homesickness.
THROUGH thickest glooms look back, immortal shade,
It makes no difference abroad
The speaker describes and reflects upon the scenery of a Florida beach.
There came a wind like a bugle
A story about a blue jay named Jakie. This chapter focuses on the relationship between Jakie and the speaker.
"How shall I woo thee to win thee, mine own?"
"I stood by the shore at the death of day,"
A woman is sent by her husband to fetch water and runs into an ogre that threatens to eat her. She offers her magical baby in her place, but the baby is able to outsmart the ogre and he eats the husband (his father) instead. Therefore, justice prevails for the husband ordered her to fetch the water.
Dorothy cries at the departure of the balloon. The next morning, she and her friends try to find a way to get Dorothy back to Kansas. They agree that they will go visit Glinda, the good witch of the South, and ask her for help.
Starlight reflects off the ocean.