Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Two: Nature
CII
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| COULD I but ride indefinite, | |
| As doth the meadow-bee, | |
| And visit only where I liked, | |
| And no man visit me, | |
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| And flirt all day with buttercups, | 5 |
| And marry whom I may, | |
| And dwell a little everywhere, | |
| Or better, run away | |
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| With no police to follow, | |
| Or chase me if I do, | 10 |
| Till I should jump peninsulas | |
| To get away from you,— | |
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| I said, but just to be a bee | |
| Upon a raft of air, | |
| And row in nowhere all day long, | 15 |
| And anchor off the bar,— | |
| What liberty! So captives deem | |
| Who tight in dungeons are. | |
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