Recovery

Dear reader, I have recuperated somewhat from yesterday’s traumatic ordeal, and I thank you for all the calls and well-wishes, the flower and candy deliveries, and the thoughtful notes and digital gift cards. Please know, you can always send candy.  Oh – and I love banana bread! I would say that trauma or no trauma, stress and shock or not – banana bread is always appreciated.
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In case you missed the details of my distress and misery, they are recounted HERE (SPOILER ALERT:  the graphic account involves striking scenes from an ancient Aztecian heart extraction ritual that some readers might find disturbing). 

Below:  Two haunting visual representations from yesterday's viscerally jarring events. 

I yield further glad tidings today, though, in addition to the news of my  journey to recovery – and said news is that I happened upon a different inventory of “greatest poems” – albeit a very confusing one – and not only is Dickinson on the list, but the very poem in question from yesterday’s dramatic turn of events is present as well.

I shall provide the link to the roster of notable poems forthwith – or forthcoming – yeah, I’ll get to it soon enough.  First though, a bit of enlightenment to ready you for the confusion. Oh, and also one warning: When the article first opens, entitled “The Ten Greatest Poems in the English Language,” and you scroll downward to access the content, you straightaway encounter the image of an unclad beauty in her boudoir – and yes, you see her bum-bum. The figure, from a painting by Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, is that of the poet Sappho, called the "Tenth Muse" by her ancient peers (“The other nine Muses were goddesses, so she was obviously held in very high regard!”).

Below:  Sappho (garbed)

Next comes the top ten list, an inventory of twenty-one poems. 
Yes, you read that correctly.  Twenty-one poems make up the top ten list.  I suppose this is like paper-towel math where, six rolls equal twelve, five rolls equal two mega-rolls, and fifteen equals twenty-eight. 

Below:  The "Top Ten Greatest Poems in the English Language" -- consisting of twenty-one poems:

To add to the confusion, the entries look like this, with each poem/poet followed by alphabetic codes, G, H, L, and/or M:

Here’s the key:

G:  The poem is in The Columbia Granger’s Index to Poetry, a compilation of the most anthologized poems.
H:  The poem appears in William Harmon’s The Classic Hundred Poems and/or The Top 500 Poems.
L:  The poem is part of LitHub’s “most anthologized poems of the past 25 years.”
M: Stands for “myself,” i.e., poem is among the writer’s favorite works.

Below:  Following the "top ten" list of twenty-one poems, the author of the article provides his own "top ten" list of twenty-plus poems: 

Below:  In the #10 position -- above and beyond the thirteen poems listed above -- the author includes a number of "longer poems" (including some complete plays by Shakespeare):

Following the author's personal choices, he includes, "GOOGLE’S TOP 50 GREATEST POEMS OF ALL TIME" ("There are a few more than 50 poems here because Google’s ratings change slightly over time and I have consulted the list periodically") -- along with "High Honorable Mentions," an extensive list of "other notable beautiful poems of the English language," and a link to "Poems by the Masters of English Language."  The complete article and many of the poems can by found HERE.