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  • Were I with thee Wild nights should be Our luxury! Futile - the winds - To a Heart in port - Done with the Compass - Done with the Chart!
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  • "Wild NightsWild Nights!" is an 1861 poem by Emily Dickinson. It was included in her posthumous collection of Poems, Second Series, published November 9, 1891. Analysis.
  • The poem begins with the speaker stating that she has had “Wild nights!” It is not clear in the text what exactly the nights refer to.
  • The speaker begins by exclaiming about wild nights—an image that might equally suggest literal stormy nights and nights of passion.
  • Were I with thee Wild nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a Heart in port – Done with the Compass – Done with the Chart!
  • Wild Nights! was written in 1861, but not published until 1891. Dickinson's verses are heartsick, her safe harbor metaphor, lovely.
  • One poem only I dread a little to print—that wonderful ‘Wild Nights,’—lest the malignant read into it more than that virgin recluse ever dreamed of putting there.
  • Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. While she was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to...