艾米莉·伊丽莎白·狄金森（Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 1830-1886) 美国女诗人，出生于1830年12月10日，在三个小孩之中排行第二。经过半个世纪反复品评、深入研究，狄金森作为对美国文学作出了重大独创性贡献的大诗人的地位已经确立。

作为世界上影响*大、拥有读者和学者*多的女诗人，牢固确立其在美国文学上的重大独创性贡献。她被人们誉为公元前7世纪古希腊萨福以来西方*杰出的女诗人。有人就驾驭英语的能力而言，甚至把她和莎士比亚相提并论。赏读狄金森的诗歌，会被其近乎"婉约"的艺术气质所吸引。她的诗歌倾向于微观、内省，表现出对传统规范不驯的叛逆姿态。诗风坚持真实，"真与美是一体"。她爱过，她被爱过，她抱过希望，也尝品过爱的甜蜜和辛酸。她爱过，她被爱过，她抱过希望，也尝味过绝望。在其所写的1775首诗中，不乏"爱"、"爱与某人"、"所爱"和"爱人"的诗篇；她写爱的萌动，爱的燃烧，爱的消失，有甜而不腻的喜悦，炽烈而蕴藉的吐露，苦而不酸的沉痛，绵绵难绝的长恨。爱，是她诗歌题材的重心，写来清新、别致。

1 Awake ye muses nine．．．
2 Sic transit gloria mundi
3 On this wondrous sea
7 Summer for thee， grant I may be
9 If recollecting were forgetting
11 Nobody knows this little Rose
12 I had a guinea golden
32 The morns are meeker than they were
43 Through lane it lay — through bramble
53 If I should cease to bring a Rose
64 Heart! We will forget him!
106 Glowing is her Bonnet
112 Success is counted sweetest
113 The Bee is not afraid of me
116 Our share of night to bear
117 "Arcturus" is his other name
123 Besides the Autumn poets sing
128 Going to Heaven!
144 I never hear the word "escape"
147 A science — so the Savants say
148 Will there really be a "Morning"?
171 A fuzzy fellow， without feet
176 If I could bribe them by a Rose
181 A Wounded Deer — leaps highest
195 Victory comes late
204 I’ll tell you how the Sun rose
205 Come slowly — Eden!
207 I taste a liquor never brewed
209 I lost a World — the other day!
210 If I shouldn’t be alive
213 The Skies can’t keep their secret!
214 Poor little Heart!
215 I shall know why — when Time is over
221 He was weak， and I was strong — then
222 Dying! Dying in the night!
236 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
241 What is — "Paradise"
253 I’ve nothing else — to bring， You know
258 I Came to buy a smile — today
260 I’m Nobody! Who are you?
265 It can’t be "Summer"!
268 Why — do they shut Me out of Heaven?
269 Wild Nights — Wild Nights!
270 I shall keep singing!
271 Over the fence
274 Again — his voice is at the door
277 Going to Him! Happy letter!
291 It sifts from Leaden Sieves
295 Savior! I’ve no one else to tell
303 Alone， I cannot be
305 What if I say I shall not wait!
314 "Hope" is the thing with feathers
315 To die — takes just a little while
320 There’s a certain Slant of light
322 Good Night! Which put the Candle out?
330 He put the Belt around my life