Home / Figures / Emily Dickinson / Poems / There is no Frigate like a Book 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 –
See it in her own hand Amherst College, Archives & Special Collections, Amherst Manuscript #462
Emily Dickinson's wisdom, told in twelve stories A retelling in the first person.
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Begin Introduction (2 min), then story 1, The Power of Observation Start over
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The poems here are transcribed from Dickinson's own manuscripts. They were first printed between 1862 and 1929 and are in the public domain. Her dashes, capital letters, and spellings are kept as she wrote them, so these read differently from the smoothed versions printed after her death. The manuscript images are reproduced courtesy of the libraries that hold them: the Boston Public Library (no known copyright restrictions), Amherst College Archives and Special Collections (free for non-commercial and educational use, with credit), and the Houghton Library at Harvard University, whose policy permits publishing images of its public-domain holdings and asks that the library be credited and told. The modern dash-faithful scholarly editions remain under copyright and are not used here.