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Dickinson, Emily - Could I but ride indefinite As doth the meadow bee
Identifier
004318
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Could I but ride indefinite
As doth the meadow bee
And visit only where I liked
And no one visit me
And flirt all day with buttercups
And marry whom I may
And dwell a little everywhere
Or better run away
With no police to follow
Or chase him if he do
Till he should jump peninsulas
To get away from me
I said ‘But just to be a bee’
Upon a raft of air
And row in nowhere all day long
And anchor ‘off the bar’
What liberty! So captives deem
Who tight in dungeons are
The source of the experience
Dickinson, EmilyConcepts, symbols and science items
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Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
GriefLead poisoning
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Communing with natureHoney
Inherited genes
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