No Frigate like a Book - Joan Lennon

October 8, 1940, after an air raid on London 

(AP photo)

There is no Frigate like a Book

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 the Human Soul –

(This version of the poem is found on the Poetry Foundation website.)

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