National Poetry Month

There is no Frigate like a Book

by Emily Dickinson

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 the Human Soul –

Illustration by T.F. Šimon, Vilma Reading a Book, 1912.