Work Metadata

Manuscript

Two, variant, about 1871 and 1872. The earlier copy is in Set 10 (h 205), with an alternative reading.

Notes

Two, variant, about 1871 and 1872. The earlier copy is in Set 10 (h205), with an alternative reading.

Set

10

Textual Notes

6 dress] guess
Division
1 on |
2 step |
3 thee |
5 on |
6 delayed |
7 thou |
8 unelected |
Division
1 Shadow |
2 a |
3 thee |
3 my |
4 nominated |

5 Shadow |
5 Grass ||
6 I |
7 other |
7 wilt |
8 Unelected |
6 delayed to dress] delay to guess
7 did'st] wilt

Publications

Letters (1931), 421, the first line of the copy said to have been sent to Todd (B). FP (1929), 84, from the set (A), with the alternative adopted, as three stanzas of 3, 3, and 7 lines; in later collections, as four triplets. Bingham, New England Quarterly, 20 (March 1947), 33, from a Todd transcript of A (a tr115a), as stanzas 2 and 3 of another poem ("We can but follow to the sun"), whose first stanza, canceled, had preceded them on the transcript; also 33n, the second stanza of B. Poems (1955), 829-31 (A, B principal); CP (1960), 526 (B). MB (1981), 1327 (A), in facsimile. (J1187)