How often, in her waking hours and in her dreams, had she started in wild terror, and covered her face with her hands?

VOA: special.2009.04.18

They fired cannons as the city of Washington was waking to a new day.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Each one smiled in turn without waking.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

I live with Him -- I see his face -- I go no more away For Visitor -- or Sundown-- Death's single privacy Dreams -- are well -- but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn -- If One wake at Midnight - better -- Dreaming -- of the Dawn -- This is my letter to the World That never wrote to me-- The simple News that Nature told-- With tender Majesty In those years, Dickinson seems to have found her "voice" as a poet.

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