Poems (Series 3) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]

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Author

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886

Editor

Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932

Publication

Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Co.

1914

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XX.

 COULD I but ride indefinite, As doth the meadow-bee, And visit only where I liked, And no man visit me, 

 And flirt all day with buttercups, And marry whom I may, And dwell a little everywhere, Or better, run away 

 With no police to follow, Or chase me if I do, Till I should jump peninsulas To get away from you, — 

 I said, but just to be a beeUpon a raft of air, And row in nowhere all day long, And anchor off the bar,— What liberty! So captives deem Who tight in dungeons are. 