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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


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I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.

I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. This Merit Hath the Worst
  2. Contrast
  3. The Nearest Dream Recedes, Unrealized
  4. In Lands I Never Saw, They Say
  5. He Put the Belt around My Life


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