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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley but severe homesickness led her to return home after one year....
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FURTHER READING
Poems about Reading
Forgetfulness
by Billy Collins
Hans Reading, Hans Smoking
by Liam Rector
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
Passerby, These are Words
by Yves Bonnefoy
Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet
by Tony Hoagland
Reading Biographies
by Gary Soto
The Author to Her Book
by Anne Bradstreet
The Land of Story-books
by Robert Louis Stevenson
To the Reader
by Jena Osman
To the Reader: If You Asked Me
by Chase Twichell
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There is no frigate like a book (1263)  
by 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.



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