Academy of American Poets National Poetry Month Magazine Login Membership Poets.org Logo Poems Find and share the perfect poems. search find poems poets poem-a-day library (texts books & more) materials for teachers poetry near you Hope is thing with feathers (254) Emily Dickinson - 1830-1886 That perches in soul And sings tune without words never stops at all sweetest gale heard sore must be storm could abash little bird kept so many warm. I've heard it chillest land on strangest sea Yet never extremity It asked a crumb me.