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Houghton Library - (137c) It might be lonelier, J405, Fr535

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Credits: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XXV, Fascicle 28. Includes 23 poems, written in ink, dated ca. 1862.
Houghton Library - (137c) It might be lonelier, J405, Fr535
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Poems (1896), 64, the final stanza. UP (1935), 102, entire; collected in Poems (1937), 428-29, where the final stanza as published in Poems (1896) also appeared separately (p. 59). Bingham, AB (1945), 394, lines 1-2 corrected and duplication of the final stanza identified. Poems (1955), 316; CP (1960), 193. MB (1981), 653, in facsimile. (J405). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F535A).
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Imported: 2013-10-21 13:02:09 -0400
Order: 13
Order Label: (137c) It might be lonelier, J405, Fr535
Label: (137c) It might be lonelier, J405, Fr535
Filename: ms_am_1118_3_137_0003

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F535A - It might be lonelier

It might be lonelier
Without the Loneliness -
I'm so accustomed to my Fate -
Perhaps the Other - Peace -

Would interrupt the Dark -
And crowd the little Room -
Too scant - by Cubits - to contain
The Sacrament - of Him -

I am not used to Hope -
It might intrude opon -
It's sweet parade - blaspheme the place -
Ordained to Suffering -

It might be easier
To fail - with Land in Sight -
Than gain - my Blue Peninsula -
To perish - of Delight -

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First Line/Title: It might be lonelier
Date: 1863
Edition: Franklin Variorum 1998
Number: F535A
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Manuscript: About spring 1863, in Fascicle 28 (h 137).
Fascicle: 28 - 11
Notes: About spring 1863, in Fascicle 28 (h137).
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Publications: Poems (1896), 64, the final stanza. UP (1935), 102, entire; collected in Poems (1937), 428-29, where the final stanza as published in Poems (1896) also appeared separately (p. 59). Bingham, AB (1945), 394, lines 1-2 corrected and duplication of the final stanza identified. Poems (1955), 316; CP (1960), 193. MB (1981), 653, in facsimile. (J405)

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