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Houghton Library - (59a) Bloom upon the Mountain stated, J667, Fr787

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Credits: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XII, Fascicle 37. Includes 21 poems, written in ink, ca. 1863. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Houghton Library - (59a) Bloom upon the Mountain stated, J667, Fr787
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SH (1914), 51-52, from the copy to Susan (B). Poems (1955), 513-15 (B principal, C; without [A]); CP (1960), 331-32 (B). The Norcross version ([A]) was published in Higgins, American Literature, 38 (March 1966), 17. MB (1981), 913-14 (C), in facsimile. (J667). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F787C).
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Order: 17
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Label: (59a) Bloom upon the Mountain stated, J667, Fr787
Filename: ms_am_1118_3_59_0001

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F787C - Bloom opon the mountain stated

Bloom opon the Mountain
stated -
Blameless of a name -
Efflorescence of a Sunset -
Reproduced - the same -

Seed had I, my Purple
Sowing
Should endow - • reward address the Day -
Not - a Manner Tropic of a Twilight -
shift Show itself away -

Who for tilling - to the
Mountain
Come - and disappear -
Whose be this her Renown -
or fading -
Witness is not here -

While I state - the Solemn
Petals -
Far as North - and East -
Far as South - and West
disclosing expanding -
Culminate - in Rest -

And the Mountain to
the Evening
Strain Fit His Countenance -
Indicating by no feature Muscle
the - His Experience -

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First Line/Title: Bloom opon the mountain stated
Date: 1863
Edition: Franklin Variorum 1998
Number: F787C
Textual Notes: 5 sowing] over sowing miswritten
11 or] interlined above of
20 The] interlined above His
Division
16 rest - ||
Emendation
1 opon] upon
18 Fit] Fits
Division
1 the |
3 of |
5 my |
6 the |
7 of |
7 Twilight - ||

9 tilling - |
10 disappear] dis - | appear
11 Her |
12 not |
13 state - ||
14 and |
15 South |
15 expanding] expan - | ding
17 Mountain |
3] Flower of a single Sunset -
6 address] endow - • reward
7 Tropic] Manner
8 Show] shift
11 her] this
15 expanding] disclosing
18 Fit] Strain
19 Muscle] feature
20 His] the -
Division
1 Mountain |
5 Purple |
9 the |
11 Renown - |
13 Solemn | Petals - ||
15 West |
17 to |

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Manuscript: Three (one lost), variant, about 1863. The lost manuscript, sent to Louise and Frances Norcross, presumably about summer 1863, was transcribed by Frances (a tr45).
Fascicle: 37 - 15
Notes: The copy in Fascicle 37 (h59), recorded about late 1863, has a number of alternatives, of which three are variants in the fair copies.
Textual Notes: 5 sowing] over sowing miswritten
11 or] interlined above of
20 The] interlined above His
Division
16 rest - ||
Emendation
1 opon] upon
18 Fit] Fits
Division
1 the |
3 of |
5 my |
6 the |
7 of |
7 Twilight - ||

9 tilling - |
10 disappear] dis - | appear
11 Her |
12 not |
13 state - ||
14 and |
15 South |
15 expanding] expan - | ding
17 Mountain |
3] Flower of a single Sunset -
6 address] endow - • reward
7 Tropic] Manner
8 Show] shift
11 her] this
15 expanding] disclosing
18 Fit] Strain
19 Muscle] feature
20 His] the -
Division
1 Mountain |
5 Purple |
9 the |
11 Renown - |
13 Solemn | Petals - ||
15 West |
17 to |
Publications: SH (1914), 51-52, from the copy to Susan (B). Poems (1955), 513-15 (B principal, C; without [A]); CP (1960), 331-32 (B). The Norcross version ([A]) was published in Higgins, American Literature, 38 (March 1966), 17. MB (1981), 913-14 (C), in facsimile. (J667)

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