I Never Saw a Moor

Emily Dickinson · 1890

Catalog grade guidance: 6–12 — Short lyric; Todd/Higginson text of the three early series.

9 content lines · 46 words · Est. recitation about 28 sec (approx.)

Public-domain text for reading and recitation practice. Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #12242, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete.Estimated time uses ~120 words/minute plus short pauses—not a contest rule.

XVII.

I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.

I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.