I reason, earth is short
I reason, earth is short, / And anguish absolute,
SETTING SAIL - Exultation is the going
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Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea, --
Past the houses, past the headlands,
Into deep eternity!
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?
More poems by Emily Dickinson
GONE
Went up a year this evening! / I recollect it well!
So proud she was to die
So proud she was to die / It made us all ashamed
High from the earth I heard a bird
High from the earth I heard a bird; / He trod upon the trees