We have been reading a couple of poems each from Whittier, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, and Dickinson this past week. The high school kiddos will find examples of Romanticism in each poem.
I added this one to the list, because it is one of my favorite Dickinson poems. Well, of those that I've read. She DID write about 1700 poems, and I've not quite read all of them (grin).
XXI
HE ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!
~Emily Dickinson
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