I lost a world the other day.
Has anybody found?
You’ll know it by the row of stars
Around its forehead bound.
A rich man might not notice it;
Yet to my frugal eye
Of more esteem than ducats.
Oh, find it, sir, for me!
Credits
Emily Dickinson was an American poet of the 19th century, now regarded as one of the most original voices in literary history. She published fewer than a dozen poems during her lifetime, yet left behind nearly 1,800 works discovered after her death. "Lost" is a striking example of her gift for compression — packing cosmic longing and personal grief into a single, quietly urgent eight-line plea.
