The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
Emily Dickinson Archive
'Tis Customary as we partA Trinket - to confer - It helps to stimulate the faith When Lovers be afar - 'Tis various - as the various taste -Clematis - journeying far - Presents me with a single Curl Of her Electric Hair - Poems1955--340, noting that clematis is also known as "Traveler's Joy," suggested that the poem may have been "composed to accompany a gift of a clematis blossom for a departing friend."