id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt dickinson-series02_018-1891 dickinson dickinson-series02_018-1891 1891 .txt text/plain 87 3 73 I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a star, Stop -- docile and omnipotent -- At its own stable door. Poem XVII. cache/dickinson-series02_018-1891.txt txt/dickinson-series02_018-1891.txt