Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

The Drop, That Wrestles In The Sea

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The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea—
Forgets her own locality—
As I—toward Thee—

She knows herself an incense small—
Yet small—she sighs—if All—is All—
How larger—be?

The Ocean—smiles—at her Conceit—
But she, forgetting Amphitrite—
Pleads—"Me"?
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