Browse for Manuscript Images by first line, date, recipient, or edition.
Browse alphabetically through more than 9,000 words in Dickinson’s poetry, as defined in the Emily Dickinson Lexicon, based in part on her dictionary, Webster's 1844 American Dictionary of the English Language.
Please sign in to add notes to this image
Perhaps they
do not go so far
as we who stay, suppose
Perhaps come closer, for the lapse
of their
corporeal clothes.
It may be - know so certainly.
How short we have to fear
that Comprehension antedates
and
estimates us there.
Please sign in to edit this transcription
Please sign in to save works to your reading list