There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
Emily Dickinson (1830- 86)
Prancing Poetry
Notes from the Compiler
Emily Dickinson wrote poetry for herself and her friends without thought of publication. We have her literary mentor, T.W. Higginson (1823-1911), an advocate of human rights and an abolitionist, to thank for spotting her talent in the first four poems she sent to him.
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