I watched the Moon around the House Emily Dickinson

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I watched the Moon around the House
Until upon a Pane
She stopped—a Traveller's privilege—for Rest
And there upon

I gazed—as at a stranger
The Lady in the Town
Doth think no incivility
To lift her Glass—upon

But never Stranger justified
The Curiosity
Like Mine—for not a Foot—nor Hand
Nor Formula—had she

But like a Head—a Guillotine
Slid carelessly away
Did independent, Amber
Sustain her in the sky

Or like a Stemless Flower
Upheld in rolling Air
By finer Gravitations
Than bind Philosopher