Wild Nights! Wild Nights!

Emily Dickinson(1830–1886)

Poems: Second Series (1891), c. 1861

Wild nights! Wild nights!Were I with thee,Wild nights should beOur luxury!

Futile the windsTo a heart in port,—Done with the compass,Done with the chart.

Rowing in Eden!Ah! the sea!Might I but moorTo-night in thee!

From Poems: Second Series (1891), via the English Wikisource transcription. The source capitalises the first word; it was restored.

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