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       Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

First Line:     Tell all the Truth but tell it slant –

While written c.1868, this poem was not published until 1945. As such it is protected by copyright and cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder.

Using Johnson's ordering, it is number 1129. It can be found, for example, in:

  • Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1960.
  • Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Fourth Edition). New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996.