Dickinson/Mather Correspondence: Poem 1618

poems from dickinson to the mathers

To Ellen Mather
From ED

To try to speak, and miss the way
And ask it of the Tears,
Is Gratitude's sweet poverty,
The Tatters that he wears -

A better Coat if he possessed
Would help him to conceal,
Not subjugate, the Mutineer
Whose title is "the Soul."