c. 1861 / Amherst

Rowing in Eden

Tags:: 1860s,; Amherst,; Emily Dickinson,; poetry

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!

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About the Text

Emily Dickinson, from her collected poems. Though fewer than ten of her poems were published in her lifetime and all of them anonymously, Dickinson wrote over seventeen hundred, stitching handwritten pages into packets and keeping them in an ebony box. Published posthumously in 1890, the first volume of her Poems went through sixteen editions in half as many years.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.