Wild nights - Wild nights!" is a poem by Emily Dickinson, one of the most famous and original of American writers. In this brief but powerful poem, the speaker longs to share "wild nights" with an absent lover. She imagines herself as a sailor on a stormy sea, searching for the harbor of her love.

Emily Dickinson's 'Wild Nights' is a short poem that has captured people's imaginations over many decades. It focuses on rapture, ecstasy and loving passionate union.

The lover in the poem might reference the speaker's desire to be closer to God, or simply the desire to be intimate with another person.This has always been doubtful though.

Wild Nights' presents the reader with a great challenge. There's little doubt that the poet's use of certain words, which she must have known about, points towards the poem's theme being sexual in nature.