On this day in 1862, Emily Dickinson's poem "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" was published in the Springfield Daily Republican. This was the second of only a handful of poems published in Dickinson's lifetime, all of them anonymously and, most think, without her knowledge:
Safe in their alabaster chambers,
Untouched by morning and untouched by noon,
Sleep the meek members of the resurrection, ... FULL STORY »
