Lyric Poem · Love
By homely gift and hindered Words
By homely gift and hindered Words
The human heart is told
Of Nothing —
"Nothing" is the force
That renovates the World —
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“By homely gift and hindered Words” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/by-homely-gift-and-hindered-words
Quick facts
- Poem
- By homely gift and hindered Words
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 5 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Love, Short
Text, source & rights
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBBy homely gift and hindered Words by emily-dickinson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 283953c5f9e0058b…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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