Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COULD I BUT RIDE INDEFINITE, by EMILY DICKINSON


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Last Line: Who tight in dungeons are
Subject(s): Freedom; Conduct Of Life


Could I but ride indefinite
As doth the Meadow Bee
And visit only where I liked
And No one visit me

And flirt all Day with Buttercups
And marry whom I may
And dwell a little everywhere
Or better, run away

With no Police to follow
Or chase Him if He do
Till He should jump Peninsulas
To get away from me -

I said "But just to be a Bee"
Upon a Raft of Air
And row in Nowhere all Day long
And anchor "off the Bar"

What Liberty! So Captives deem
Who tight in Dungeons are.




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