[at-l] Emily Dickinson

[Bob C]

by: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

I HAD a guinea golden; 
I lost it in the sand, 
And though the sum was simple, 
And pounds were in the land, 
Still had it such a value 
Unto my frugal eye, 
That when I could not find it 
I sat me down to sigh. 
  
I had a crimson robin 
Who sang full many a day, 
But when the woods were painted 
He, too, did fly away. 
Time brought me other robins,-- 
Their ballads were the same,-- 
Still for my missing troubadour 
I kept the "house at hame." 
  
I had a star in heaven; 
One Pleiad was its name, 
And when I was not heeding 
It wandered from the same. 
And though the skies are crowded, 
And all the night ashine, 
I do not care about it, 
Since none of them are mine. 
  
My story has a moral: 
I have a missing friend,-- 
Pleiad its name, and robin, 
And guinea in the sand,-- 
And when this mournful ditty, 
Accompanied with tear, 
Shall meet the eye of traitor 
In country far from here, 
Grant that repentance solemn 
May seize upon his mind, 
And he no consolation 
Beneath the sun may find.




> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Sloetoe <sloetoe at yahoo.com>
> To: hopeflpoet at webtv.net, at-l at backcountry.net, infpeace at gmail.com
> Date: Sat, Dec-30-2006 10:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Emily Dickinson
>
> Alright alright alright....
> If you poetesses think The Big E was so hot poet and
> hiker(ess)-wise, why not post a killer poem, to show
> us Philistines whuz'all the fuss about? C'mon, lay it
> on us.
> 
> Oh, and as for the long skirts, the hardest part of
> the United States settlement was done and underway
> when Miss Emily was doing her thing from the upstairs
> window, all done by women in "long skirts" and
> children as well, nearly all of whom went *shoeless*
> for the trip. Let's remember our forebears were much
> more physical than us. (And by "forebears", I don't
> just mean "pioneers" or "Pilgrims" but, heh, let's go
> back a few MILLION years. We wuz MADE to move ladies
> n' gennilmun.
> 
> sloetoe
> waitingfortheEmily
> (** Special Note Department: If you do a spellcheck on
> waitingfortheEmily, you get MaidenForm. Kinda poetic,
> ain't it?)
> 
> --- hopeflpoet at webtv.net wrote:
> 
> >  in the unlikely event that those who read Emily
> > don't already know, ...
> > ...she definitely would
> > have been a long-distance hiker if those long skirts
> > hadn't been the required female 'gear'. 
> 
> Spatior! Nitor! Nitor! Tempero!
>    Pro Pondera Et Meliora.
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