Poetry: Dickinson: Wild Nights - Wild Nights (269)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Guess who has two thumbs and bought a used copy of collected poems of Dickinson for 50 cents at an elementary school Spring Fair this weekend? This gal!

Wild nights - Wild nights! by Emily Dickinson


Wild nights - Wild nights!
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile - the winds -
To a Heart in port -
Done with the Compass -
Done with the Chart!

Rowing in Eden -
Ah - the Sea!
Might I but moor - tonight -
In thee!

Comments

[orchid314]

I love the poem you’ve chosen here. ED writes in this stately diction that she puts to use in such unexpected ways. It’s kind of like crossing a church hymnal with Alice in Wonderland sometimes.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, I love so many aspects of her writing. The imagery, the voice, the rhyme is so neat. She must've been quite the person to write the way she did about the things she did.