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Wild Nights - Wild Nights!

Emily Dickinson · 1891 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Victorian

Wild nights would be their luxury if the speaker were with the one addressed, and to a heart already in port the winds are futile and the compass and the chart are done with. The third stanza is rowing in Eden and the sea. Higginson wrote that he feared the malignant would read more into it than was there, and put it into the second posthumous series anyway.

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