1. Thomas H. Johnson, Introduction to Emily Dickinson: An Interpretative Biography (Cambridge, Mass : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1955), p. 203.
2. Thomas H. Johnson (ed.), The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Cambridge Mass : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1955
3. William R. Sherwood, Circumference and Circumstances : Stages in the Mind and Art of Emily Dickinson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1968), p. 35.
4. Inder Nath Kher, The Landscape ofAbsense : Emily Dickinson's Poetry (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974), p. 182.
5. David Porter, Dickinson : The Modern Idiom (Cambridge Mass Harvard University Press, 1981), p. 158.
6. Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali (London: Macmillan, 1967), song no. 91.
7. P.B. Shelley, Adonais, Lines 460-465.