Emily Dickinson

"This is my letter to the World" (441)

This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me—
The simple News that Nature told—
With tender Majesty

Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see—
For love of Her—Sweet—countrymen—
Judge tenderly—of Me

E. Dickinson (1830-1886) is one of the women writers evoked by A. Lowell in her poem "The Sisters"(1925).