There is no frigate like a book
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
first printed 1894 (in a letter); this text 1896

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Rights: First printed in 1894 in Letters of Emily Dickinson, then as a poem in Poems, Third Series (1896); the author died in 1886 and the editor, Mabel Loomis Todd, in 1932. Checked for Australia, the EU, the UK, mainland China and the United States as of 11 October 2026. Guidance, not legal advice.
Source: Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12242/pg12242.txt (retrieved 2026-10-11)
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There is no frigate like a book
  To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
  Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
  Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
  That bears a human soul!