Wild nights! Wild nights!

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

      Were I with thee,

Wild nights should be

Our luxury!


Futile the winds

To a heart in port,—

Done with the compass,

Done with the chart.


Rowing in Eden!

Ah! the sea!

Might I but moor

To-night in thee!

#emily dickinson #intimacy #romantic love

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