17/06/2026
The lidded vessel project (complete with screw top lid and wearable as a pendant) from my diploma was inspired by a poem. First published in 1891 in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series. This poem is in the public domain in the United States.
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
by Emily Dickinson
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.