Dickinson never titled her poems, so the convention is to call them after
their first lines. I'll give you those lines/titles, followed by the number
of the poem in the edition I recommended ("Final Harvest" edited by Thomas Johnson),
followed by the number of the poem in parentheses which refers to the authoritative
"The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson," also edited by Johnson.
(NB: titles of books are normally underlined or rendered in italics, but I can't do that
in an e-mail & thus my incorrect quotation marks).
"I never lost as much but twice" 7 (49)
"'Faith' is a fine invention" 34 (185)
"How many times these low feet staggered--" 35 (187)
"I taste a liquor never brewed--" 46 (214)
"Safe in their Alabaster Chambers--" 47 (216)
"Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" 58 (249)
"There's a certain Slant of light" 66 (258)
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" 78 (280)
"Of Bronze--and Blaze--" 87 (290)
"The Soul selects her own Society--" 95 (303)
"It sifts from Leaden Sieves--" 102 (311)
"I'll tell you how the Sun rose--" 106 (318)
"A Bird came down the Walk--" 116 (328)
"Tis not that Dying hurts us so--" 119 (335)
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes--" 122 (341)
"What Soft--Cherubic Creatures--" 154 (401)
That's sixteen poems, which may seem like a lot BUT a) they're all short & b) we have a two
hour class/funfest. Remember to REREAD like CRAZY--until the words of the poems are singing
in your heart & throbbing in your brain & dancing in your bloodstream.
And try to come to our June 16 meeting having memorized at least one of these poems. (I'm serious.)
yours for beauty & truth forever.............Alan