SYLLABLES OF EMILY DICKINSON 77pick a poisonous flower, or Goblins kidnap me, but I went along and met no
one but Angels, who were far shyer of me, than I could be of them.”
Liking the names of things, she kept a herbarium as a girl, a booklet with
dried flowers labeled in English and Latin. At age nine for a photo, she ’s holding
an illustrated book with a cut flower in it, and at sixteen, a flower’s in one hand
Emily Dickinson, ca.
Collection of Philip and Leslie Gura.