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Early American Poets » Emily Dickinson » Emily Dickinson’s Poetry » Come Slowly Eden

Come Slowly Eden

Come slowly—Eden
Lips unused to Thee—
Bashful—sip thy Jessamines
As the fainting Bee—

Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums—
Counts his nectars—
Enters—and is lost in Balms.

– Emily Dickinson

  • A Book
  • A Precious Mouldering
  • A train went through a burial gate
  • A Wounded Deer
  • Because I Could Not Stop For Death
  • Behind me dips Eternity
  • Bustle In A House
  • Come Slowly Eden
  • Dare You See A Soul
  • Empty My Heart of Thee
  • Faith Is A Fine Invention
  • For Each Ecstatic Moment
  • Going to Heaven
  • Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
  • I Can Wade Grief
  • I Died for Beauty
  • I Felt A Funeral In My Brain
  • I know that he exists
  • I Read My Sentence Steadily
  • I Shall Keep Singing
  • I Shall Know why
  • I Taste A Liqour
  • I Went to Heaven
  • If I Can Stop
  • It Was Not Death
  • Let Down the Bars, O Death
  • Let us Play Yesterday
  • Much Madness
  • My Life Closed
  • Poems On Nature
  • Poems Series One
  • Success Is Counted Sweetest
  • T’is So Much Joy
  • The Chariot (Because I Could Not Stop For Death)
  • They Dropped like Flakes
  • Who Never Lost
  • Wild Nights
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