The Soul selects her own Society

Emily Dickinson · 1890 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Victorian

The soul chooses her own company, shuts the door, and is present no more to the divine majority left outside it. Chariots pause unmoved at her low gate and an emperor kneels upon her mat, and she notices neither. Out of an ample nation she chooses one, in a poem the 1890 editors printed under a title of their own.

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