Contributed by Mary K. Cardinale

This poem is by Emily Dickinson, written around 1862. It can be found in Introduction to Poetry, Seventh Edition, Edited by X. JU. Kennedy, published by Little Brown, 1990, page 249:

A Dying Tiger - Moaned For Drink

A Dying Tiger - moaned for Drink-
I hunted all the Sand-
I caught the Dripping of a Rock
And bore it in my Hand-

His Mighty Balls - in death were thick-
But searching - I could see
A Vision on the Retina
Of Water - and of me-