Emily Dickinson

Dec. 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886

 

Mine

by Emily Dickinson

Mine by the right of the white election!
Mine by the royal seal!
Mine by the sign in the scarlet prison
Bars cannot conceal!

Mine, here in vision and in veto!
Mine, by the grave's repeal
Titled, confirmed, -- delirious charter!
Mine, while the ages steal!

Source:

Poems
Copyright 1890
Little, Brown, And Company, Boston