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Emily Dickinson...?

I can never understand her poetry. Can someone explain what this poem is about? Especially the last part please --

Wild nights! Wild nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile the winds
To a heart in port,
Done with the compass,
Done with the chart.

Rowing in Eden!
Ah! the sea!
Might I but moor
To-night in thee!


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dick...

Emily Dickinson Comprising 597 poems of the Belle of Amherst, whose life of the Imagination formed the transcendental bridge to modern American poetry.

http://www.bartleby.com/113/

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/dickins...

Good luck.

Kevin, Liverpool, England.