Religion
- "eternity"
- "came nearer than ever before to arresting the transitory ecstasy of which all her life she had received fleeting experiences"
- "Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, / And I am richer then than all by my Fellow Men- / Ill it becometh me to dwell so wealthily / When at my very Door are those possessing more / In abject poverty"
- "I watched the Moon around the House" suggests humans' distance from spiritual meaning; she says the moon has no hunger "Nor Avocation--nor Concern / For little Mysteries / As harass us--like Life--and Death-- / And Afterwards--or Nay-- / But seemed engrossed to Absolute-- / With shining--and the Sky"
Death
- "Because I could not stop for Death-- / He kindly stopped for me"
- "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died"
- "That it will never come again / Is what makes life so sweet"
- "Parting is all we know of heaven, / And all we need of hell"
Love
- "Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed"
- "How--to be--Somebody!"
- "Much Madness is divinest Sense-- / To a discerning Eye . . . Assent--and you are sane-- / Demur--you're straightway dangerous-- / And handled with a Chain"
- "This is my letter to the World / That never wrote to Me--"
Pain
- "The 'Tune is in the Tree--' / The Skeptic--showeth me-- / 'No Sir! In Thee!'"
- "The Brain--is wider than the Sky-- / For-put them side by side-- / The one the other will contain / With ease--and You--beside"
- "One need not be a Chamber--to be Haunted-- / One need not be a House-- / The Brain has Corridors--surpassing / Material Place--"