News & Events

Coming up . . .

"Dwell in Possibility": The Little White House Project Comes to Amherst

  • Don't miss an ingenious art installation across the grounds of the Homestead, The Evergreens, and other Main Street properties in Amherst, May 10 - June 30. Details»

The Premiere of a New Film in the "Angle of a Landscape" series

  • "My Business is to Sing" on Thursday, June 7 Details»


Visit Us!

The Emily Dickinson Museum is open March-December, Wednesday-Sunday, from 11 am to 4 pm (extended hours in summer).  The Museum is closed on Mondays, Tuesdays, and major holidays. Details »

The Museum includes The Homestead, where poet Emily Dickinson was born and lived most of her life, and The Evergreens, home of the poet’s brother and his family.  The two houses share three beautiful acres of the original Dickinson property in the center of Amherst, Massachusetts.


 

The Emily Dickinson Museum thanks the sponsors of its recent Emily Dickinson Birthday Event:

Media Sponsors: Sponsors:
NEPR   The Davis Financial Group LLC Amherst College Stifel Nicolaus Hope & Feathers Framing
Daily Hampshire Gazette The Lord Jeffery Inn St. Germain Investment Management
           
           

 

Poem of the Week

A wounded Deer- leaps highest-
I’ve heard the Hunter tell-
‘Tis but the extasy of death-
And then the Brake is still!

The smitten Rock that gushes!
The trampled Steel that springs!
A Cheek is always redder
Just where the Hectic stings!

Mirth is the mail of Anguish-
In which it cautious Arm,
Lest Anybody spy the blood
And “you’re hurt” exclaim!

Fr 181  Reprinted by permission.

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