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Houghton Library - (106b) A Solemn thing within the Soul, J483, Fr467

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Credits: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XIX, Fascicle 22. Includes 23 poems, written in ink, dated ca. 1862.
Houghton Library - (106b) A Solemn thing within the Soul, J483, Fr467
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BM (1945), 244, from a transcript of A (a tr118), with the first three words of line 10 as the last of line 9. Poems (1955), 370; CP (1960), 232-33. MB (1981), 496, in facsimile. (J483). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F467A).
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Imported: 2013-10-21 13:02:42 -0400
Order: 14
Order Label: (106b) A Solemn thing within the Soul, J483, Fr467
Label: (106b) A Solemn thing within the Soul, J483, Fr467
Filename: ms_am_1118_3_106_0002

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F467A - A solemn thing within the soul

A Solemn thing within the
Soul
To feel itself get ripe -
And golden hang - while
farther up -
The Maker's Ladders stop -
And in the Orchard far below -
You hear a Being - drop -

A wonderful - to feel the sun
Still toiling at the cheek
You thought was finished -
Cool of eye, and critical of
Work -
He shifts the stem - a little -
To give your Core - a look -

But solemnest - to know
Your chance in Harvest moves
A little nearer - Every sun
The single - to some lives.

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First Line/Title: A solemn thing within the soul
Date: 1862
Edition: Franklin Variorum 1998
Number: F467A
Textual Notes: Division
1 the |
3 while |
10 critical of |

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Manuscript: About late 1862, in Fascicle 22 (h 106).
Fascicle: 22 - 12
Notes: About late 1862, in Fascicle 22 (h106).
Textual Notes: Division
1 the |
3 while |
10 critical of |
Publications: BM (1945), 244, from a transcript of A (a tr118), with the first three words of line 10 as the last of line 9. Poems (1955), 370; CP (1960), 232-33. MB (1981), 496, in facsimile. (J483)

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