Emily Dickinson Famous Poems

Emily Dickinson left school as a teenager, eventually living a reclusive life on the family homestead. There, she secretly created bundles of poetry and wrote hundreds of letters. Due to a discovery by sister Lavinia, Dickinson’s remarkable work was published after her death — on May 15, 1886, in Amherst — and she is now considered one of the towering figures of American literature. Index: A Bird Came Down After a Hundred Years Heaven I’m nobody! Who are you? If I should die I dwell in Possibility I heard a Fly buzz—when I died Success is Counted Sweetest