# Emily Dickinson's most famous poems

The poems by the recluse of Amherst that anthologies and literature sites name again and again. They had no titles: each is known by its first line.

- 33 votes · 17 items
- Jul 21, 2020 · Orla McCarthy
- https://even.best/en/l/2307/emily-dickinson-s-most-famous-poems

## Top 17

1. **Because I could not stop for Death** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A carriage ride with Death as a polite gentleman.
2. **"Hope" is the thing with feathers** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Hope as a little bird that never stops singing.
3. **I'm Nobody! Who are you?** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A playful poem against fame.
4. **I heard a Fly buzz – when I died** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A deathbed scene interrupted by a fly.
5. **A Bird, came down the Walk** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A close look at a bird eating a worm.
6. **Much Madness is divinest Sense** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Society decides who is mad.
7. **Wild nights – Wild nights!** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Her most passionate poem.
8. **I dwell in Possibility** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Poetry as a house with more windows than prose.
9. **I felt a Funeral, in my Brain** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A breakdown described as a funeral.
10. **Success is counted sweetest** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — One of the few poems published in her lifetime.
11. **My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — One of her most debated and mysterious poems.
12. **A narrow Fellow in the Grass** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — An encounter with a snake.
13. **Tell all the truth but tell it slant** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — On telling truth indirectly.
14. **I taste a liquor never brewed** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Getting drunk on nature and summer air.
15. **There's a certain Slant of light** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Winter light that weighs on the soul.
16. **The Brain – is wider than the Sky** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The mind as bigger than the universe.
17. **After great pain, a formal feeling comes** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — The numbness that follows grief.

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