by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

There is no frigate like a book
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Language: English 
Our translations:  GER
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 a human soul!

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Confirmed with Poems by Emily Dickinson. Third Series, ed by Mabel Loomis Todd, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896.


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This text was added to the website: 2011-12-28
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