Poem-a-Day

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Poem-a-day

[This is my letter to the World]

This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me—
The simple News that Nature told—
With tender Majesty

Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see—
For love of Her—Sweet—countrymen—
Judge tenderly—of Me

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on September 12, 2026, by the Academy of American Poets.

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson — Photo credit: Amherst College Library

Previous Poems

Title	Author	Date
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652	John Milton	07/17/2011
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798	William Wordsworth	07/16/2011
Trip Hop	Geoffrey Brock	07/15/2011
The Nurse	Michael Blumenthal	07/14/2011
Orkney Interior	Ian Hamilton Finlay	07/13/2011
Albatross in Co. Antrim	Robin Robertson	07/12/2011
Egg	Aleš Šteger	07/11/2011
On Summer	George Moses Horton	07/10/2011
Interlude	Edith Sitwell	07/09/2011
Pocket Vampire	Dorothy Barresi	07/08/2011