Work Metadata

Manuscript

Two (one in part, one lost), variant, about 1880(?). The extant holograph, in pencil on a tiny scrap of paper (a 169), is of three words from the eighth line.

Notes

Two (one in part, one lost), variant, about 1880(?). The extant holograph, in pencil on a tiny scrap of paper (a169), is of three words from the eighth line.

Textual Notes

Division
8 by |
8 by] of

Publications

Poems (1896), 21, from the Todd transcript ([B]); in Poems (1930), 43, and Poems (1937), 43, as two six-line stanzas, because so divided at a page break in CP (1924), 50-51. Bingham, New England Quarterly, 28 (September 1955), 318, three words of line 8, unidentified, from the extant holograph (A). Poems (1955), 1159 ([B] only); CP (1960), 698 ([B]). Bingham, New England Quarterly, 28 (September 1955), 318, the holograph fragment (A), unidentified. Letters (1958), 923 (A), among the prose fragments, with a reference to the poem. (J1718)