Poetry Tuesday!: "The reticent volcano keeps…" by Emily Dickinson

In this age of Internet and social media, Emily Dickinson tells us to be as quiet as a volcano.

In this age of Internet and social media, Emily Dickinson tells us to be as quiet as a volcano.

Here's "The reticent volcano keeps…" (1897) by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).

For the rest of my playlist, click here. Past poems are:

1. "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2. "The Pulley" by George Herbert
3. "Harmonie du soir" by Charles Baudelaire
4. "Dirge Without Music" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
5. "Clancy of the Overflow" by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
6. "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova
7. "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear
8. "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe
9. "Les Djinns" by Victor Hugo
10. "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger
11. "When I Was One-and-Twenty" by A.E. Housman
12. "Узник" ("Uznik", "The Prisoner" or "The Captive") by Aleksandr Pushkin
13. "God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
14. "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats
15. "Je crains pas ça tellment" by Raymond Queneau
16. "The Naming of Cats" by T.S. Eliot