There is no frigate like a book (1263)

Emily Dickinson

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.

Poems by This Author

A Bird came down the Walk (328) by Emily Dickinson
A Bird came down the Walk

A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794) by Emily Dickinson
A Drop fell on the Apple Tree

A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650) by Emily Dickinson
A lane of Yellow led the eye

A Man may make a Remark (952) by Emily Dickinson
A Man may make a Remark

Because I could not stop for Death (712) by Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death--

Besides the Autumn poets sing (131) by Emily Dickinson
Besides the Autumn poets sing

Color - Caste - Denomination - (970) by Emily Dickinson
Color - Caste - Denomination

Come Slowly—Eden (211) by Emily Dickinson
Come slowly—Eden

Dear March - Come in - (1320) by Emily Dickinson
Dear March - Come in -

Fame is a fickle food (1659) by Emily Dickinson
Fame is a fickle food

Hope is the thing with feathers (254) by Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers

I cannot live with You (640) by Emily Dickinson
I cannot live with You--

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280) by Emily Dickinson
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,

I heard a Fly buzz (465) by Emily Dickinson
I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--

I like to see it lap the Miles (43) by Emily Dickinson
I like to see it lap the Miles

I measure every Grief I meet (561) by Emily Dickinson
I measure every Grief I meet

I taste a liquor never brewed (214) by Emily Dickinson
I taste a liquor never brewed--

I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl (443) by Emily Dickinson
I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl—

I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260) by Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you?

It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (311) by Emily Dickinson
It sifts from Leaden Sieves

It was not Death, for I stood up (510) by Emily Dickinson
It was not Death, for I stood up

It's all I have to bring today (26) by Emily Dickinson
It's all I have to bring today

Knows how to forget! (433) by Emily Dickinson
Knows how to forget

Like Brooms of Steel (1252) by Emily Dickinson

Luck is not chance (1350) by Emily Dickinson
Luck is not chance

My life closed twice before its close (96) by Emily Dickinson
My life closed twice before its close

One day is there of the series by Emily Dickinson
One day is there of the series

One Sister have I in our house (14) by Emily Dickinson

Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (216) by Emily Dickinson
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers—

The Outlet (162) by Emily Dickinson
My river runs to thee

The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487) by Emily Dickinson
The Savior must have been

The Soul selects her own Society (303) by Emily Dickinson
The Soul selects her own Society—

The Soul unto itself (683) by Emily Dickinson
The Soul unto itself

There's a certain Slant of light (258) by Emily Dickinson
There's a certain Slant of light,

To make a prairie (1755) by Emily Dickinson
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,

Two Butterflies went out at Noon— (533) by Emily Dickinson
Two Butterflies went out at Noon

We never know how high we are (1176) by Emily Dickinson
We never know how high we are

Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (249) by Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights! - Wild Nights!

Winter is good - his Hoar Delights (1316) by Emily Dickinson
Winter is good - his Hoar Delights

		Poems about Reading
		After Reading Lao Tzu by Amy Newlove Schroeder
		Book Loaned to Tom Andrews by Bobby C. Rogers
		Books by Gerald Stern
		Burning of the Three Fires by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
		Forgetfulness by Billy Collins
		Hans Reading, Hans Smoking by Liam Rector
		How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual by Pamela Spiro Wagner
		Learning to Read by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
		Light By Which I Read by Eric Pankey
		Love For This Book by Pablo Neruda
		My First Memory (of Librarians) by Nikki Giovanni
		One Train May Hide Another by Kenneth Koch
		Passerby, These are Words by Yves Bonnefoy
		Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet by Tony Hoagland
		Reading Novalis in Montana by Melissa Kwasny
		Shawl by Albert Goldbarth
		Stet Stet Stet by Ange Mlinko
		The Author to Her Book by Anne Bradstreet
		The Best Thing Anyone Ever Said About Paul Celan by Shane McCrae
		The Land of Story-books by Robert Louis Stevenson
		The Reader by Richard Wilbur
		The Secret by Denise Levertov
		To the Reader by Jena Osman
		To the Reader: If You Asked Me by Chase Twichell
		Untitled [I closed the book and changed my life] by Bruce Smith
		Why I Am Afraid of Turning the Page by Cate Marvin
		You Begin by Margaret Atwood

There is no frigate like a book (1263)

Emily Dickinson

Poems by This Author

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