<p>Dickinson, bred among the mountains, sets sail into deep eternity. In this short poem, she moves out, moves beyond, and finds the very thing her Puritan forebears would have chalked up innocence, worldliness, or worse. Who wouldn't want to follow her?</p>

Dickinson, bred among the mountains, sets sail into deep eternity. In this short poem, she moves out, moves beyond, and finds the very thing her Puritan forebears would have chalked up innocence, worldliness, or worse. Who wouldn't want to follow her?

Emily Dickinson, Poem #143 ("Exultation is the going")

Join me, Mark Scarbrough, on this bookmarked journey through some of the best lyric poetry in English . I've got a passion for small, evocative poems. I'd like to share that with out--as well as those poems, of course! Together, we'll encounter the core things that make us human: love, the inner life, the emotions, our notion of purpose, and our relationship with the natural world around us. Join me. We humans are made for each other!

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Emily Dickinson, Poem #143 ("Exultation is the going")

Emily Dickinson, Poem #143 ("Exultation is the going")