Uploaded on January 8, 2012
A sloop of amber slips away
Upon an ether sea,
And wrecks in peace a purple tar,
The sun of ecstasy.
—Emily Dickinson
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson
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