Poems (Dickinson)/Whether my bark went down at sea

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Poems (1890)
by Emily Dickinson
Whether my bark went down at sea
5065Poems — Whether my bark went down at sea1890Emily Dickinson

XXIV.

Whether my bark went down at sea,
Whether she met with gales,
Whether to isles enchanted
She bent her docile sails;

By what mystic mooring
She is held to-day,—
This is the errand of the eye
Out upon the bay.