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Question: What is Emily Dickinson's most famous poem!?
I am doing a report on her and do you have a link to the poem!? Thanks!Www@QuestionHome@Com


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a bird came down the walk :


A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw!.
And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass!.

He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad,--
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head

Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home

Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, splashless, as they swim!.

SUCESS:

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed!.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need!.

Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,

As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear!

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I HEARD a fly buzz when I died
by Emily Dickinson

I HEARD a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm!.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,
And breaths were gathering sure
For that last onset, when the king
Be witnessed in his power!.

I willed my keepsakes, signed away
What portion of me I
Could make assignable,—and then
There interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me;
And then the windows failed, and then
I could not see to see!.

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She has many incredibly famous poems, the "most famous" is subjective!. I would go with one of the below:

- Because I could not stop for Death

- Hope is a thing with feathers

- A narrow fellow in the grass

- If I can stop one heart from breaking

- Wild nights! Wild nights!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yesterday Is History by Emily Dickinson

Yesterday is History,
'Tis so far away
Yesterday is Poetry
'Tis Philosophy

Yesterday is mystery
Where it is Today
While we shrewdly speculate
Flutter both awayWww@QuestionHome@Com

#465 "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died-"
#712 "Because I could not stop for Death-"
THese get into anthologies quite often!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

http://quotations!.about!.com/cs/poemlyric!.!.!.

She never titled her poetry, but the first line is: "If I can stop one heart from breaking!."Www@QuestionHome@Com

I believe it was the one that starts with the line, "Because I could not wait for Death!.!.!."

Hope I helped!.
God bless you!. ?Www@QuestionHome@Com