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The Soul Selects Her Own Society – 2 May 2008
Emily Dickinson, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, was the daughter
of a lawyer who became a congressman. Most of her poems are concerned
with nature, love, death, and immortality.
This is one of Emily Dickinson’s most famous poems. I first read it
many years ago when I was a young girl.
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
By Emily Dickinson
American Poet (10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886)
The soul selects her own society,
Then shuts the door;
On her divine majority
Obtrude no more.
Unmoved, she notes the chariot’s pausing
At her low gate;
Unmoved, an emperor is kneeling
Upon her mat.
I’ve known her from an ample nation
Choose one;
Then close the valves of her attention
Like stone.
For more poems by Emily Dickinson, visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/poetry/dickinson_emily.html
For a collection of poems and stories, visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/poetrydir.html
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same time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the
world, and feel called to help expose and end it so that we may have true
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