1. Home »
  2. American Poets »
  3. Emily Dickinson

The show is not the show,

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

The show is not the show,
But they that go.
Menagerie to me
My neighbor be.
Fair play—
Both went to see.




Quotes of the Day

If you want to be loved, be lovable.
• Ovid


Poems of the Day
  • James Whitcomb Riley
    His Vigil
    by James Whitcomb Riley
    Close the book and dim the light, I shall read no more to-night. No--I am not sleepy, dear-- Do not go: sit by me here In the darkness and the deep Silence of the watch I keep.