Upon the gallows hung a wretch,
Too sullied for the hell
To which the law entitled him.
As nature’s curtain fell
The one who bore him tottered in,
For this was woman’s son.
”T was all I had,’ she stricken gasped;
Oh, what a livid boon!

Few get enough, — enough is one;
To that ethereal throng
Have not each one of us the right
To stealthily belong?

Dickinson fans in the Boston area can check out Beth Goldman as Emily Dickinson at the Waltham Public Library, 735 Main Street, Waltham, MA. The performance begins at 7:30 PM.

Goldman has played Dickinson in the full-length “The Belle of Amherst,” from which “Tea with Emily Dickinson” is adapted, with the Walpole Footlighters. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet Emily Dickinson for anyone who doesn’t have a time machine handy.