Within My Reach!
poem 90
Within My Reach! - fact Summary
Published in 1890 Collection
This short lyric appears in the 1890 collection Poems by Emily Dickinson. Its imagery of missed opportunities and quietly passing beauty is typical of Dickinson’s compact meditations. The poem’s placement in the 1890 edition helped introduce her terse punctuation and domestic landscapes to a wider Victorian readership, shaping early interpretations that emphasized restraint, compressed emotion, and small, overlooked moments.
Read Complete AnalysesWithin my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered thro’ the village Sauntered as soft away! So unsuspected Violets Within the meadows go Too late for striving fingers That passed, an hour ago!
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