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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Philosophy


It might be easier
  To fail with land in sight,
Than gain my blue peninsula
  To perish of delight.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Contrast
  2. The Nearest Dream Recedes, Unrealized
  3. This Merit Hath the Worst
  4. Who Robbed the Woods
  5. Going to Heaven!


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Richard Hovey Philosophy ("I SOMETIMES long to throw my books away")
  • Amy Levy Philosophy ("Ere all the world had grown so drear")
  • Ella Wilcox Philosophy ("At morn the wise man walked abroad")
  • Norman Gale Philosophy ("'Tis sometimes Fortune's little joke")
  • Edith Nesbit Philosophy ("THE sulky sage scarce condescends to see")
  • Dorothy Parker Philosophy ("If I should labor through daylight and dark")

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