Emily Dickinson's Nature Mysticism : A Photo Poetic Labyrinth Explore a 4-circuit meander or labyrinth, with selected mystic poems by Emily Dickinson, combining nature spirituality and travel imagery, along with related commentary adapted from ED's own writings. See also Garden Slide Shows, and special sections on Emily Dickinson's Herbarium and Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle, along with related excerpts on nature mysticism, including Japanese Gardens, the Feminine Tao Te Ching, the Tea Ceremony, and Natural Sounds in early Japanese Women's Poetry.

Circuit # I

(00) (Preface) The Blunder Is In Estimate (J-1684) (F-1690) (01) A Route of Evanescence (J-1463) (F-1489) (02) It Sounded As If the Streets Were Running (J-1397) (F-1454) (03) Two Butterflies Went Out at Noon (J-0533) (F-0571) (04) Wild Nights! Wild Nights! (J-0249) (F-0269) (05) A Spider Sewed at Night (J-1138) (F-1163) (06) Lightly Stepped a Yellow Star (J-1672) (F-1698) (07) (Epilogue) Though the Great Waters Sleep (J-1599) (F-1641)

Circuit # II

(08) (Preface) Will there Really Be a "Morning"? (J-0101) (F-0148) (09) As If I Asked a Common Alms (J-0323) (F-0014) (10) Let Me Not Mar That Perfect Dream (J-1335) (F-1361) (11) I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed (J-0214) (F-0207) (12) A Narrow Fellow in the Grass (J-0986) (F-1096) (13) How Happy is the Little Stone (J-1510) (F-1570) (14) The Murmur of a Bee (J-0155) (F-0217) (15) (Epilogue) The Pedigree of Honey (J-1627) (F-1650)

Circuit # III

(16) (Preface) How Soft a Caterpillar Steps (J-1448) (F-1523) (17) So, from the Mould (J-0066) (F-0110) (18) A Bird Came Down the Walk (J-0328) (F-0359) (19) Further in Summer than the Birds (J-1068) (F-0895) (20) The Morns are Meeker than They Were (J-0012) (F-0032) (21) The Sky is Low, the Clouds are Mean (J-1075) (F-1121) (22) It Sifts from Leaden Sieves (J-0311) (F-0291) (23) (Epilogue) A Wind that Rose Though Not a Leaf (J-1259) (F-1216)

Circuit # IV

(24) (Preface) There is a Solitude of Space (J-1695) (F-1696) (25) A Little Road Not Made of Man (J-0647) (F-0758) (26) I Send Two Sunsets (J-0308) (F-0557) (27) Nature Is What We See (J-0668) (F-0721) (28) He Ate and Drank the Precious Words (J-1587) (F-1593) (29) No Ladder Needs the Birds but Skies (J-1574) (F-1605) (30) These are the Signs to Nature's Inns (J-1077) (F-1106) (31) (Epilogue) No Matter Where the Saints Abide (J-1541) (F-1576)

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