Tag: Emily Dickinson

Poem for the Day: October 7th, 2021

Wild nights – Wild nights! (269) 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!

© 1988 President and Fellows of Harvard College. © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 President and Fellows of Harvard College. Today’s poem is taken from The Poems of Emily Dickinson Edited by R. W. Franklin, which was released in 1999 by Harvard University Press.

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Poem for the Day: September 10th, 2021

“Hope” is the thing with feathers – (314) by Emily Dickinson 

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.