Title: Collected Poems
Author: Emily Dickinson
Genre: Poetry
Pages: 212
Rating: 5 / 5 stars
Reading Challenges: Mixing it Up - Poetry; Mount TBR; Fall into Reading
How I Got It: I own it
I've always liked Emily Dickinson and her poetry. I think there's something about her morbid outlook that speaks to me. I am not an optimist and I have a feeling she wasn't either. Her poetry itself is often disjointed, but it all seems to go together. This is one of those volumes that I pick up every few years. It's a comfort read, an old friend, a reminder of my past. Dickinson is not for everyone, but she's definitely for me.
My favorite: Hope
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.