Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part One: Life CII |
| I HAD a guinea golden; | |
| I lost it in the sand, | |
| And though the sum was simple, | |
| And pounds were in the land, | |
| Still had it such a value | 5 |
| Unto my frugal eye, | |
| That when I could not find it | |
| I sat me down to sigh. | |
| I had a crimson robin | |
| Who sang full many a day, | 10 |
| But when the woods were painted | |
| He, too, did fly away. | |
| Time brought me other robins,— | |
| Their ballads were the same,— | |
| Still for my missing troubadour | 15 |
| I kept the “house at hame.” | |
| I had a star in heaven; | |
| One Pleiad was its name, | |
| And when I was not heeding | |
| It wandered from the same. | 20 |
| And though the skies are crowded, | |
| And all the night ashine, | |
| I do not care about it, | |
| Since none of them are mine. | |
| My story has a moral: | 25 |
| I have a missing friend,— | |
| Pleiad its name, and robin, | |
| And guinea in the sand,— | |
| And when this mournful ditty, | |
| Accompanied with tear, | 30 |
| Shall meet the eye of traitor | |
| In country far from here, | |
| Grant that repentance solemn | |
| May seize upon his mind, | |
| And he no consolation | 35 |
| Beneath the sun may find. |
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