The Mind

I had not minded walls

by Emily Dickinson 1830–1886

From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)

The Mind

I had not minded walls
Were Universe one rock,
And far I heard his silver call
The other side the block.

I'd tunnel until my groove
Pushed sudden through to his,
Then my face take recompense—
The looking in his eyes.

But 'tis a single hair,
A filament, a law—
A cobweb wove in adamant,
A battlement of straw—

A limit like the veil
Unto the lady's face,
But every mesh a citadel
And dragons in the crease!

MLA

Dickinson, Emily. “I had not minded walls.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/511/.

Chicago

Dickinson, Emily. “I had not minded walls.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/511/.

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