"Futile the winds / To a heart in port,-- / Done with the compass, / Done with the chart."
— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Boston
Publisher
Robert Brothers
Date
1892
Metaphor
"Futile the winds / To a heart in port,-- / Done with the compass, / Done with the chart."
Metaphor in Context
[VII. Wild nights! Wild nights!]
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
To-night in thee!
(p. 97)
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
To-night in thee!
(p. 97)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Dickinson, Emily. Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series Ed. Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson (Robert Brothers: Boston, 1892). <Link to UVA e-Text Center><Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
12/31/2010
