Lyric Poem · Nature
One Sister have I in our house
1One Sister have I in our house,
2And one, a hedge away.
3There's only one recorded,
4But both belong to me.
5One came the road that I came —
6And wore my last year's gown —
7The other, as a bird her nest,
8Builded our hearts among.
9She did not sing as we did —
10It was a different tune —
11Herself to her a music
12As Bumble bee of June.
13Today is far from Childhood —
14But up and down the hills
15I held her hand the tighter —
16Which shortened all the miles —
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Quick facts
- Poem
- One Sister have I in our house
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 27 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Nature, Summer, Love
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 27 lines · 6 stanzas of 4–6 lines
- End rhyme
- No regular perfect end rhyme. The poem may still be using slant rhyme, assonance, or internal echo, which this check does not score.
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBOne Sister have I in our house 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 12931d80d960c11f…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.