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Amherst - Amherst Manuscript # 208 - His bill is clasped - his eye forsook - asc:2711 - p. 1

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Amherst Manuscript # 208
Amherst - Amherst Manuscript # 208 - His bill is clasped - his eye forsook - asc:2711 - p. 1

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Bingham, AB (1945), 29, as three quatrains, from the draft (A) with the alternatives for line 1 adopted; also BM (1945), 66. Poems (1955), 775 (A only); CP (1960), 497-98 (A). (J1102). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1126A).
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Amherst Manuscript # 208
Franklin # 1126
Johnson Poems # 1102

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Box 3 Folder 46

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His bill is clasped - his eye forsook

Amherst Location

https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/asc:2709

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asc:2711

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F1126A - His bill is clasped - his eye forsook

His Bill is clasped -
his Eye estranged forsook
His Feathers wilted
low -
The Claws that
clung, like lifeless
Gloves
Indifferent gathered hanging
now -
The Joy that in
his happy Throat
Assembled Was waiting to
be poured
Gored through and
through with Death,
to be
Assassin of a Bird
Resembles to my
outraged mind
The firing in Heaven,
On Angels - squandering
for you
Their unsuspecting • [unsus]picious Miracles of
Tune -

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First Line/Title: His bill is clasped - his eye forsook
Date: 1866
Edition: Franklin Variorum 1998
Number: F1126A
Textual Notes: 1 clasped] locked
1 forsook] estranged
4 hanging] gathered
6 Was waiting] Assembled
12 Miracles of] unsuspecting • [unsus]picious
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1 clasped - |
2 wilted |
3 that |
3 lifeless |
4 hanging |
5 in |
6 to |
7 and |
7 Death, |
9 my |
11 squandering |
12 of |
1 eye] transcribed eyes then corrected
Division
1 locked, |

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Manuscript: Two (one lost), variant, about 1866. The extant manuscript is a draft in pencil on half a sheet of the letterhead of L. M. Hills Son, an Amherst firm manufacturing palm leaf hats (a 208).
Notes: Two (one lost), variant, about 1866. The extant manuscript is a draft in pencil on half a sheet of the letterhead of L. M. Hills Son, an Amherst firm manufacturing palm leaf hats (a208).
Textual Notes: 1 clasped] locked
1 forsook] estranged
4 hanging] gathered
6 Was waiting] Assembled
12 Miracles of] unsuspecting • [unsus]picious
Division
1 clasped - |
2 wilted |
3 that |
3 lifeless |
4 hanging |
5 in |
6 to |
7 and |
7 Death, |
9 my |
11 squandering |
12 of |
1 eye] transcribed eyes then corrected
Division
1 locked, |
Publications: Bingham, AB (1945), 29, as three quatrains, from the draft (A) with the alternatives for line 1 adopted; also BM (1945), 66. Poems (1955), 775 (A only); CP (1960), 497-98 (A). (J1102)

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Related Works in This Edition

F1126B - His bill is locked, his eye estranged

The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998

Related Works in Other Editions

J1102 - His Bill is clasped -- his Eye forsook --

The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Johnson, 1955

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