Publications in Dickinson's Lifetime (one letter and ten poems)
Below is a list of poems known to have been published during Dickinson's lifetime. Scholars believe that Dickinson did not authorize any of these publications. All poems were published without attribution.
- 1850
- “Magnum bonum, harem scarum”
A valentine letter published in Amherst College Indicator, February (L34)
- 1852
- “ ‘Sic transit gloria mundi,’ ”
Published in Springfield Daily Republican (February 20)
Titled “A Valentine”
- 1858
- "Nobody knows this little rose - "
First published Springfield Daily Republican (August 2)
Titled “To Mrs -, with a Rose.”
- 1861
- “I taste a liquor never brewed- ”
First published Springfield Daily Republican (May 4)
Titled “The May-Wine”
- 1862
- "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - ”
First published in Springfield Daily Republican (March 1)
Titled “The Sleeping”
- 1864
- "Blazing in Gold, and quenching in Purple”
First published in Drum Beat, Brooklyn, NY (February 29)
Titled “Sunset”
- "Flowers-Well- if anybody”
First published in Drum Beat, Brooklyn, NY (March 2)
Titled “Flowers”
- "These are the days when Birds come back- ”
First published in Drum Beat, Brooklyn, NY (March 11)
Titled “October”
- "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church- ”
First published in Round Table, New York (March 12)
Titled “My Sabbath”
- “Success is counted sweetest”
First published in Brooklyn Daily Union (April 27, untitled)
- 1866
- "A narrow Fellow in the Grass”
First published in Springfield Daily Republican (February 14)
Titled “The Snake”
- 1878
- "Success is counted sweetest” (only known publication in a book)
Published in A Masque of Poets (Boston: Roberts Bros.)