Poems (Dickinson)/Exclusion

by Emily Dickinson

For other versions of this work, see The Soul selects her own Society—.

XIII.

EXCLUSION.

The soul selects her own society,
Then shuts the door;
On her divine majority
Obtrude no more.

Unmoved, she notes the chariot's pausing
At her low gate;
Unmoved, an emperor is kneeling
Upon her mat.

I've known her from an ample nation
Choose one;
Then close the valves to her attention
Like stone.