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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


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Whether my bark went down at sea,
Whether she met with gales,
Whether to isles enchanted
She bent her docile sails;

By what mystic mooring
She is held to-day, --
This is the errand of the eye
Out upon the bay.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. A Service of Song
  2. Rouge et Noir
  3. Love’s Baptism
  4. The Heart Asks Pleasure First
  5. If You Were Coming in the Fall


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