Mar 19 2005
It’s all I have to bring today
It’s all I have to bring to-day
by Emily Dickinson
It’s all I have to bring to-day,
This, and my heart beside,
This, and my heart, and all the fields,
And all the meadows wide.
Be sure you count, should I forget, —
Someone the sum could tell, —
This, and my heart, and all the bees
Which in the clover dwell.
(4 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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i really don\’t like this poem very well like the other person wrote put some heart into it!
you idiots, the poet is dead, emily dickinson wrote it! its a classic!
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this piece is pretty good, but it could be alot better put a little more heart into it.
I love ur poem…It demonstrates the lurve between romantic lovers…….:P
i agree with the smart person who realizes that this poet is dead. lol… but i also agree with the idiots in that i don\’t really like it but its all a matter of taste.
I can\’t believe some of you don\’t know who Emily Dickinson is…she is so awesome. Her poems may not be sing-song, but they are surely from the heart!
Are you people chatting or what?
OMG! some people are so stupid! Wonder what they\’d say about Shakespeare?
i love this poem its so nice and its a clasiics i love it
I think its hillarious people say they can do better at writing a poem. especially comparing with classic writers.
I am old, and it frightens me to think the young have leared so little from the immortal words of someone like Dickinson. If you can read this poem and miss the obvious statement that her love is limitless, then you will miss so much of life?
Our vast universe is too small to contain,
What all lovers seek to gain.
But if your efforts are just a smidgin,
You\’ll mistake a Dove, for a pidgeon.
How can you say put more feeling into it? The only person who truly understands the exact meaning of the poem is the poet, you can\’t tell them to put more feeling into it, when thats how they feel. If you really think you can write a better poem than Dickinson did then why don\’t you show us, instead of putting down a classic that you don\’t understand.
Whats she\’s saying is that she\’s giving everything she has, correct? That\’s how much she loves this person she\’s thinking of. But somehow it\’s not enough.
A poet\’s work should not be critisized,
for it always is part of their soul.
And if you shouldn\’t take like of it,
why then, don\’t say anything at all.
Emily Dickinson was and still is cherished because she was an amazing poet. She self exiled herself to better understand the world without human\’s disastrous and conforming ways of life. She did without many things such as a family in order to put down on paper her unique versions of the beauties in life. So don\’t judge what you don\’t know… If you have issues with how this amazing poet wrote or didn\’t write her poems then just remember this. Emily Dickenson wrote because doing so was her passion, not to please you.
this poem is written by myself,i\\\’m iranian,so I had to send it for u in this way:
love is just a word,so use it when you\\\’re bored;
I use it in my mind,it is hide;I love sb else,I KNOW U LOVE ME;so keep it hardly;I have used to say goodbye;but i can\\\’t tell you bye;i can\\\’t understand my feeling;i love u or not….
(tell me is it beautiful or not,send it to my gmail)
I agree with Justifiablyinlove. Poetry is feeling, emotion, passion. I challenge most people to fully understand her emotion, let alone grasp the subtle nuances of her style and craft.
I’ll also add that Emily Dickinson did not write her poetry for the general public. Those poems she shared were gifts to those close to her. Most of her poetry, kept hidden in a drawer in her room, was discovered and published only after her death. To my knowledge, only one man (I forget his name) offered constructive criticism during her lifetime, suggesting some changes to her work. She thanked him for his interest… and didn’t change a thing.
Whoever says that Emily Dickinson can’t write, Is seriously disturbed. There’s nothing better then an Emily Dickinson poem. Her writing is stunning and if you are intelligent enough to understand it to it’s full potential, it makes you feel. Emily Dickinson writes with emotion. I agree with Philip^.
Let me also add that Emily Dickinson had no intention of letting her poems out into the public. So, She wrote with her true emotions and feelings. Because of her sister we are able to have full access to her mind. It’s truely her through her work. She didn’t hold back or leave anything out because she was unaware that millions and millions of people would see her poems. That’s why I love her work…….
Read it slowly. Let the majesty of Emily’s simply penned passion fill you. Read it again. The depth of her expressed love will dawn on you and fill your heart.
IT IS A BEAUTIFUL POEM. SHOWS HOW SHE KNOWS WHAT TRUE LOVE IS. SHE CAN PUT INTO WORDS WHAT NOT MANY PEOPLE CAN DO OR UNDERSTAND. SHE IS TIMELESS AND WILL NEVER BE UNDERSTOOD BY THOSE WHO CANNOT EXPERIENCE THE FEELINGS ONE HAS WHEN THEY ARE TRULY IN LOVE. SHE HAS A PASSION OF EXPERIENCE THAT ONLY SHE CAN PUT INTO HER WORDS.
It’s a beautiful classical poem…These people criticizing Emily Dickinson probably believe that a true poem is a nursery rhyme. Did you read in school? How could you think that this poem lacks emotion?
EMILY DICKINSON is the best classic poet ever. i looove her poems, short and touching, looks like they’ve come right from her heart. n yeah, she did know how to bring the feelings out in words!
i wonder what ‘this’ means in the poem? :whistle:
Okay, okay, we get it. It is very classical. But How? What’s the meaning/analysis of this poem?
To simplify further for those who struggle to comprehend……….there is nothing more precious than the mystery/spirituality of nature! What is more beautiful / precious than fields and meadows? The bees simply reinforce the sheer mystery of life and also bees in themselves symbolise harmony and balance. The writer feels and appreciates natures priceless things. They are in her heart . ….. And that is her ultimate offering. She asks that this should not be forgotten in the future…….as they often are when relationships mature in time.