The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
Emily Dickinson Archive
The Day that I was crownedWas like the other Days - Until the Coronation came - And then - 'twas Otherwise - As Carbon in the CoalAnd Carbon in the Gem Are One - and yet the former Were dull for Diadem - I rose, and all was plain - But when the Day declinedMyself and It, in Majesty Were equally - adorned - The Grace that I - was chose - To me - surpassed the Crown That was the Witness for the Grace -'Twas even that 'twas Mine -