Poems by Emily Dickinson: Sunset ("A sloop of amber")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
Cocoon
Aurora

Sunset

Sunset

A sloop of amber slips away
Upon an ether sea,
And wrecks in peace a purple tar,
The son of ecstasy.
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