The Mind
Where Thou art—that is Home,
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
The Mind
Where Thou art—that is Home,
Cashmere or Calvary—the same,
Degree—or shame,
I scarce esteem location's name
So I may come.
What Thou do'st is delight,
Bondage as play be sweet,
Imprisonment content
And sentence sacrament,
Just we two meet!
Where Thou art not is Woe—
Though bands of spices blow,
What Thou do'st not—Despair—
Though Gabriel praise me, Sir!
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Dickinson, Emily. “Where Thou art—that is Home.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/620/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “Where Thou art—that is Home.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/620/.
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