Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part One: Life
LXXVIII
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| TO learn the transport by the pain, | |
| As blind men learn the sun; | |
| To die of thirst, suspecting | |
| That brooks in meadows run; | |
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| To stay the homesick, homesick feet | 5 |
| Upon a foreign shore | |
| Haunted by native lands, the while, | |
| And blue, beloved air— | |
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| This is the sovereign anguish, | |
| This, the signal woe! | 10 |
| These are the patient laureates | |
| Whose voices, trained below, | |
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| Ascend in ceaseless carol, | |
| Inaudible, indeed, | |
| To us, the duller scholars | 15 |
| Of the mysterious bard! | |
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