Today on All I Have to Bring: American poet Emily Dickinson: The Herbarium – a selection of her nature-themed poems.

Dickinson’s poems encompass many subjects, which are too broad for the scope of this episode – life and death, eternity and resurrection, victory and defeat, love, loss, and domesticity – but in the language of flowers, she touches on all of these in some small way. This episode is divided into five thematic sections: Innocence, Lands Away, Resurrection, Passion, and Farewell.

Time Stamps:

00:16 Introduction

05:00 Innocence

• It’s all I have to bring to-day
• Perhaps you’d like to buy a flower?
• Nobody knows this little Rose–
• Flowers–Well–if anybody
• “Whose are the little beds,” I asked
• A sepal, petal, and a thorn
• To make a prair ...