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Amherst Manuscript # 319
Amherst - Amherst Manuscript # 319 - One joy of so much anguish - asc:8411 - p. 1

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BM (1945), 61, as three quatrains, with the alternatives not adopted. Poems (1955), 985-86; CP (1960), 606. (J1420). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1450A).
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Amherst Manuscript # 319
Franklin # 1450
Johnson Poems # 1420

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Box 4 Folder 53

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One joy of so much anguish

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https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/asc:8409

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asc:8411

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F1450A - One joy of so much anguish

One Joy of
so much anguish
Sweet Nature
has for me -
I shun it as
I do Despair
Or dear iniquity -
Why Birds, a
Summer morning
Before the Drums of Day - • Bells [of Day - ripe • peal • Drum Quick
of Day
Should
stab
my ravished Spirit
With Dirks of
Melody
Is part of an
inquiry
That will receive
reply
When Flesh and
Spirit sunder
In Death's
immediately -

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First Line/Title: One joy of so much anguish
Date: 1877
Edition: Franklin Variorum 1998
Number: F1450A
Textual Notes: 1 Joy] sound
6 Quick] ripe • peal • Drum
6 Quick of Day] Drums of Day - • Bells [of Day -] • Bomb [of Day -] • Burst of Day • Flags of Day - • step of Day • Bells of Day • tick [of Day] • shouts [of Day] • Pink of Day • Red of Day • Blade of Day
alt 6 Drums] over two other letters
9 inquiry] written inquiry t (a canceled anticipation of the next line)
9-11 of an inquiry / That will receive reply / like Flesh] of an inquiry / Delaying it's reply / like Flesh
Division
1 of |
2 Nature |
3 as |
5 a |
6 Quick |
7 Should | stab |
8 of |
9 an |
10 receive |
11 and |
12 Death's |
alt 9-11 Delaying |

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Manuscript: About 1877, in pencil on two leaves torn from a notebook (a 319).
Notes: About 1877, in pencil on two leaves torn from a notebook (a319).
Textual Notes: 1 Joy] sound
6 Quick] ripe • peal • Drum
6 Quick of Day] Drums of Day - • Bells [of Day -] • Bomb [of Day -] • Burst of Day • Flags of Day - • step of Day • Bells of Day • tick [of Day] • shouts [of Day] • Pink of Day • Red of Day • Blade of Day
alt 6 Drums] over two other letters
9 inquiry] written inquiry t (a canceled anticipation of the next line)
9-11 of an inquiry / That will receive reply / like Flesh] of an inquiry / Delaying it's reply / like Flesh
Division
1 of |
2 Nature |
3 as |
5 a |
6 Quick |
7 Should | stab |
8 of |
9 an |
10 receive |
11 and |
12 Death's |
alt 9-11 Delaying |
Publications: BM (1945), 61, as three quatrains, with the alternatives not adopted. Poems (1955), 985-86; CP (1960), 606. (J1420)

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J1420 - One Joy of so much anguish

The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Johnson, 1955