The Moon is distant from the Sea - (387)

The Moon is distant from the Sea -

And yet, with Amber Hands -

She leads Him - docile as a Boy -

Along appointed Sands -

He never misses a Degree -

Obedient to Her eye -

He comes just so far - toward the Town -

Just so far - goes away -

Oh, Signor, Thine, the Amber Hand -

And mine - the distant Sea -

Obedient to the least command

Thine eye impose on me -

Copyright Credit: THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON: READING EDITION, edited by Ralph W. Franklin, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1998, 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955 , by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1914, 1918, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright © 1952, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1965 by Mary L. Hampson.

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition, ed by Ralph W. Franklin (Harvard University Press, 1999)