Contributor
Emily Dickinson
Poem 207. After trips in her early twenties in the 1850s to Washington, DC to visit her congressman father and to Boston for treatment for an eye disorder, Dickinson wrote to a friend from her Amherst house, where she spent the remainder of her life, “I do not cross my father’s ground to any house or town.” She composed her poems in her bedroom, writing over 1,700, only a handful of which were published in her lifetime. She died of a stroke at the age of fifty-five in 1886.
