"In many and reportless places" By Emily Dickinson [Analysis]

In many and reportless places[1] We feel a Joy [2] Reportless, also, but sincere as Nature[3] Or Deity [4] It comes, without a consternation [5] Dissolves the same [6] But leaves a sumptuous Destitution [7] Without a Name [8] Profane it by a search we cannot[9] It has no home [10] Nor we who having once inhaled it [11] Thereafter roam.[12]
Poem 1382 [F1404] "In many and reportless places" Analysis by David Preest [Poem]

Emily speaks of 'a Joy' which can sweep over us in quite ordinary places and is impossible to describe but which is as real as 'Nature or Deity.' It comes and goes without commotion but leaves a sumptuous, nameless feeling behind. We cannot search for it as it has no home, but, once we have experienced it, we know it is where we really belong. Emily is referring to those momentary glimpses of the divine of which she had also tried to give an account in, for example, poem 673. She also used the word 'reportless' in poem 1048.
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