Poems by Emily Dickinson: Setting Sail

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
From the Chrysalis
VIII

Setting Sail

Setting Sail

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?
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