The Soul selects her own Society – / Then – shuts the Door –
- Source
- Poem, c. 1862 (published 1890)
- Written
- c. 1862
About this quotation
The poem pictures a soul so self-possessed that a chariot at her gate and an emperor kneeling on her mat leave her “unmoved”. It was first published in the 1890 collection edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.