Lake Erie Haldimand County

This world is not conclusion

a sequel stands beyond,

Invisible, as music,

But positive, as sound.

It beckons and it baffles;

Philosophies don't know,

And through a riddle, at the last,

Sagacity must go.

To guess it puzzles scholars;

To gain it, men have shown

Contempt of generations,

And crucifixion known.

~ Emily Dickinson, XXX1

Although Dickinson wrote more than seventeen hundred poems,  it was not until after her death that her sister Lavinia discovered the poems in a box in packets of four, five, or six sheets of folded stationery.  Emily had lived in obscurity.

Essayist and man of letters, T. W. Higginson, who assisted in having the first Emily Dickinson poems published, described Emily's work as "poetry torn up by the roots, with rain and dew and earth still clinging to them, giving a freshness and a fragrance not otherwise conveyed."