A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650) by Emily Dickinson

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend July 6, 2014   A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650)   Emily Dickinson

A lane of Yellow led the eye Unto a Purple Wood Whose soft inhabitants to be Surpasses solitude If Bird the silence contradict Or flower presume to show In that low summer of the West Impossible to know—              This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   “A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650)” by Emily Dickinson was not published in Dickinson’s lifetime.   Emily Dickinson authored nearly 1,800 poems during her lifetime. She is considered to be one of America’s most important poets. Dickinson was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, and died in Amherst in 1886. Poetry by Dickinson   The Poems of Emily Dickinson (Belknap Press, 2005) “A Small Hot Town” by Collier Nogues “Balance” by Adam Zagajewski “At the Fishhouses” by Elizabeth Bishop Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038