Today on All I Have to Bring: American poet Emily Dickinson: The Herbarium – a selection of her nature-themed poems.
Dickinson’s poems encompass many subjects, which are too broad for the scope of this episode – life and death, eternity and resurrection, victory and defeat, love, loss, and domesticity – but in the language of flowers, she touches on all of these in some small way. This episode is divided into five thematic sections: Innocence, Lands Away, Resurrection, Passion, and Farewell.
Time Stamps:
00:16 Introduction
05:00 Innocence
- It’s all I have to bring to-day
- Perhaps you’d like to buy a flower?
- Nobody knows this little Rose–
- Flowers–Well–if anybody
- “Whose are the little beds,” I asked
- A sepal, petal, and a thorn
- To make a prairie
10:17 Lands Away
- If the foolish call them 'flowers'
- As if some little Arctic flower
- Two butterflies went out at noon
- Some rainbow coming from the fair!
- A sloop of amber slips away
- Of bronze and blaze
- How the old mountains drip with sunset
17:33 Resurrection
- Some keep the Sabbath going to church
- Some things that fly there be
- Alter? When the hills do
- God made a little gentian
- Essential oils are wrung
- A lady red upon the hill
- The murmuring of bees has ceased
22:33 Passion
- I hide myself within my flower
- I taste a liquor never brewed
- If she had been the mistletoe
- If recollecting were forgetting
- If you wore coming in the fall
- Come slowly, Eden!
28:45 Farewell
- Within my reach!
- This was in the white of the year
- New feet within my garden go
- When roses cease to bloom, dear
- I have not told my garden yet
- I'll tell you how the sun rose--
33:15 Closing & credits
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References and further reading:
Emily Dickinson Archive //
Letters of Emily Dickinson
Poems: Three Series, Complete, by Emily Dickinson
Poetry Foundation: Emily Dickinson
