Childish hope | Emily Dickinson, 1858

W. Eugene Smith, 1941

"I have a childish hope to gather all I love together 
and sit down beside and smile."

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mrs. Bowles 

written c. January 1858

Also:

Poems on Fragments of Paper | Emily Dickinson, 1830- 86 

Letter to Mary Haven | Emily Dickinson, 1859 

 314 / Hope | Emily Dickinson, 1861