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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Death's waylaying not the sharpest, p. 4.
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F1315A - Death's waylaying not the sharpest
Death's Waylaying
not the sharpest
Of the Thefts
of Time -
There marauds
a sorer Robber -
Silence - is his
name -
No Assault,
nor any menace
Doth betoken
him.
But from
Life's consum -
mate
Cluster,
He supplants
the Balm.
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- First Line/Title
- Death's waylaying not the sharpest
- Date
- 1874
- Recipient
- Catherine Dickinson Sweetser
- Edition
- Franklin Variorum 1998
- Number
- F1315A
- Textual Notes
- Division
1 Waylaying |
2 Thefts |
3 marauds |
4 his |
5 Assault, |
6 betoken |
7 from |
7 consummate] consum - | mate
8 supplants |
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Work Metadata
- Manuscript
- About 1874, in a note of sympathy to Catherine Dickinson Sweetser. The manuscript is now pasted into her copy of the first series of Poems (Rosenbach Museum and Library). On 21 January 1874 her husband, Joseph A. Sweetser, walked out of their home in New York City and disappeared. The poem and opening sentence constitute the entire message.
- Recipient
- Catherine Dickinson Sweetser
- Textual Notes
- Division
1 Waylaying |
2 Thefts |
3 marauds |
4 his |
5 Assault, |
6 betoken |
7 from |
7 consummate] consum - | mate
8 supplants | - Publications
- Sweetser, Great American Girls (1931), 135; collected into BM (1945), 249, as two quatrains, with a note acknowledging the earlier publication. Poems (1955), 899-900, from a transcript of A (Harvard/Jones Library); also CP (1960), 565; and Letters (1958), 521. (J1296)
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