There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away
- Source
- Poem, c. 1873 (published 1896)
- Written
- c. 1873
About this quotation
The poem continues that no “coursers” are like “a page of prancing poetry”, and that this journey costs the poorest nothing. It was published in the third series of Dickinson’s poems in 1896, ten years after her death.