Poems by Emily Dickinson: Sunset ("A sloop of amber")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

by EmilyDickinson

Sunset

A sloop of amber slips away
Upon an ether sea,
And wrecks in peace a purple tar,
The son of ecstasy.

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Poems by Emily Dickinson: Sunset ("Where ships of purple")

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