A purple book cover with white text that reads Poems, Series 1 by Emily Dickinson. Edited by two of her friends, Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson. Boston 1891. There are white and purple flowers on the bottom of the cover.
Emily Dickinson was socially isolated during her life, and had very little human interaction. She turned to poetry to express her deepest thoughts on life, love, nature, and time and eternity.