All I Have to Bring: A Poetry and Literature Podcast

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 Introduction05:00 InnocenceIt’s all I have to bring to-dayPerhaps you’d like to buy a flower?Nobody knows this little Rose–Flowers–Well–if anybody“Whose are the little beds,” I askedA sepal, petal, and a thornTo make a prairie10:17 Lands AwayIf the foolish call them 'flowers'As if some little Arctic flowerTwo butterflies went out at noonSome rainbow coming from the fair!A sloop of amber slips awayOf bronze and blazeHow the old mountains drip with sunset17:33 ResurrectionSome keep the Sabbath going to churchSome things that fly there beAlter? When the hills doGod made a little gentianEssential oils are wrungA lady red upon the hillThe murmuring of bees has ceased22:33 PassionI hide myself within my flowerI taste a liquor never brewedIf she had been the mistletoeIf recollecting were forgettingIf you wore coming in the fallCome slowly, Eden!28:45 FarewellWithin my reach!This was in the white of the yearNew feet within my garden goWhen roses cease to bloom, dearI have not told my garden yetI'll tell you how the sun rose--33:15 Closing & creditsOur logo was created by Ezra Gerety //https://www.instagram.com/ezrageretyartInstagram //https://www.instagram.com/allihavetobringPatreon //https://www.patreon.com/cw/AllIHavetoBringReferences and further reading:Emily Dickinson Archive //Letters of Emily Dickinson Poems: Three Series, Complete, by Emily Dickinson Poetry Foundation: Emily Dickinson