J448

This was a Poet - It is ThatDistills amazing senseFrom ordinary Meanings -And Attar so immense

From the familiar speciesThat perished by the Door -We wonder it was not OurselvesArrested it - before -

Of Pictures, the Discloser -The Poet - it is He -Entitles Us - by Contrast -To ceaseless Poverty -

Of Portion - so unconscious -The Robbing - could not harm -Himself - to Him - a Fortune -Exterior - to Time -

c. 1862                    1929

Here we have another impressive “distillation” of Emersonian thinking. Here she manages to express in four short stanzas a great deal of what Emerson elaborately explains in his essay “The Poet” (1844).