Poems — First Series by Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Mabel Loomis Todd

She Rose to His Requirement, Dropped

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

If aught she missed in her new day Of amplitude, or awe, Or first prospective, or the gold In using wore away,

It lay unmentioned, as the sea Develops pearl and weed, But only to himself is known The fathoms they abide.

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