The poetry of Emily Dickinson is especially appealing due to the wide range of topics, diversity of mood, and peculiar imagination of the poet. The writings are reflective, passionate, witty, sensuous, observant, and ridiculously humorous. Her heart soars. Her mind pokes fun. Emily was truly a New Englander. Her poems are understated and compact. Her love of nature focuses on small things - birds, bees, meadows, and a pond. In creating the musical settings, the composer Gwyneth Walker, herself a New Englander, endeavored to capture the spirit of the poetry, and of the poet, with songs diverse in style and concise in form. In this collection, Walker creates musical translations of Dickinson's imagery with these titles: My Letter to the World; The Moon and the Sea; The Frog in the Bog; Hope with Feathers; Passion; Joy and All I Have to Bring.