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I can hardly be called
an apprentice
Your work is vast and 
numerous Mine is thrown
carelessly into the wind
Disappeared like fine smoke
The pen to paper is the
first step—or is it the
thought itself. They
must be together or else
They cannot sustain
Yet you live on
Happy Birthday Emily
<3 Debbie M.

[High School student in Washington]

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[Labels of stamped images and hand drawn illustrations]
The Butterfly and the Bee
Bird flew away
Noisy, like a frog
Ocean all Around
Leopard Sun

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Dear
Emily,
I love
your
Poems!
They give
me alot
to think about!
Love, 
Tai
Connecticut,
age 
10

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Emily invigorates
My soul with gorgeous poems.
Her slant rhymes and her hymnal verse
Sing out to the whole world.

In dreams we wander down the path
Just wide enough for two.
We converse with our friends, the hills, 
And I’m nobody too.

In life she comes alive through words
I revisit each day;
Her remarks full of clever wit
Still create joy today.

To Emily I am in debt 
For poems, which changed my life,
For causing in me a desire,
Like her, to read and write.

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Dear Emily

Your poems speak volumes and
bring such joy to the world that
never wrote to you. Due to your
verse, I have found solace in sorows,
celebrated joys, and attended
Mount Holyoke College. Thank you
for the legacy you left behind in 
letters and poems; you’ll never 
understand the tremendous 
impact they’ve had.
 
Fondly, 
Annie

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My first Real brush
With Emily
Came when presenting
A display – on Poetry

Her visage ~ Plain
As were her words
In the poems posted ~
on the Bulletin Boards

Then explored further ~
Deeper her meanings
Not always understood
But – always – worth reading

By Danita S.

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Did you ever imagine all of this,
even for a second? Happy
Birthday! 

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Dear Ms. Em, 

I’ll confess that when I 1st met you, 
I didn’t like you. Death, flies,
symbolism, spinsterhood…oh how my
high school teachers exalted in the 
bleak, the desolate, the alone. But
then one day…30 or 40 years later—
I came upon one of your poems
and found such joy, music,
life. And love. Over and over
again. An the breadth and depth
of you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Jennifer

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I reckon – when I count at all –
First – Poets – Then the Sun –
Then Summer – Then the Heaven of God –
And then – the List is done –

But, looking back – the First so seems –
To Comprehend the whole –
The others look a needless show –
So I write – Poets – All – 

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The Eudora Welty House and Garden
1109 Pinehurst Street
Jackson, MS 39202

Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson!
Eudora Welty was a Pulitzer Prize –
winning author and an avid letter 
writer and reader. Her correspondence is
house at the Mississippi Department
of Archives and History and her house
and garden are now open to the public, much
like Dickinson’s Homestead. Among Welty’s
5,000 books are a collection of Emily 
Dickinson’s poems and a selection of her letters.
From one literary museum to another,
happy 189th, Emily!

Sincerely,

The Eudora Welty House & Garden,
Jackson, MS

-Rachel  Lauren  Kasey  Demia