The name was Emily Dickinson. Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have been ... I offered him a crumb, And he unrolled his feathers And rowed him softer home Than oars divide ...
Passionate, astute, concentrated. The poems of Emily Dickinson (1830–86) have marked her out as one of the great American poets and she has been placed by the critic Harold Bloom as a key figure ...