“It’s all I have to bring today…” (26)

It’s all I have to bring today —

This, and my heart beside —

This, and my heart, and all the fields —

And all the meadows wide —

Be sure you count — should I forget

Some one the sum could tell —

This, and my heart, and all the Bees

Which in the Clover dwell.

MARGINALIA

Feeling a bit lazy on a Monday afternoon. Yesterday I went out with two lovely friends and had the most wonderful time. We watched a play,  Shakespeare in Hollywood , and I enjoyed it immensely. I haven’t seen any plays in awhile, and I’m glad I went to this one. What else was yesterday about? In no particular order: white Toblerone with wasabi cake, plagiarism, living in a commune, coffee, book hunting, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, suicide, digital cameras, guys with facial hair, ladies who lunch, tropical fruit shakes, Palawan, R., freelancing, pest control, Irish christening gowns, leaving an extra tip for a cute waiter, walking around Makati, bass players, construction workers, pizza topped with arugula and truffle oil, A., Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt, helping a reporter out, and more.

Sometimes I can’t believe these two picked me as their friend. I feel so lucky.

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This poem appeared in    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson  by Emily Dickinson  , published by Little, Brown and Company, 1960. (Available on:  Amazon  •  Bookshop )

DESCRIPTION

“ This comprehensive and authoritative collection of all 1,775 poems by Emily Dickinson is an essential volume for all lovers of American literature.

Only eleven of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumous published collections — some of them featuring liberally “edited” versions of the poems — did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson’s bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations. Not until the 1955 publication of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, a three-volume critical edition compiled by Thomas H. Johnson, were readers able for the first time to assess, understand, and appreciate the whole of Dickinson’s extraordinary poetic genius.

This book, a distillation of the three-volume Complete Poems, brings together the original texts of all 1,775 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote.

“With its chronological arrangement of the poems, this volume becomes more than just a collection; it is at the same time a poetic biography of the thoughts and feelings of a woman whose beauty was deep and lasting.” —San Francisco Chronicle” ( Source )

ABOUT EMILY DICKINSON

Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but only for one year. Dickinson’s poetry was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England. She was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. The first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890 and the last in 1955. She died in Amherst in 1886. Upon her death, Dickinson’s family discovered forty handbound …  (more)

Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but only for one year. Dickinson’s poetry was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England. She was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. The first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890 and the last in 1955. She died in Amherst in 1886. Upon her death, Dickinson’s family discovered forty handbound volumes of nearly 1,800 poems, or “fascicles,” as they are sometimes called. ( Source )

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