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Houghton Library - (214d) At leisure is the Soul, J618, Fr683

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Credits: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XL, Fascicle 32. Includes 21 poems, written in ink, ca. 1862.
Houghton Library - (214d) At leisure is the Soul, J618, Fr683
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London Mercury, 19 (February 1929), 357-58, New York Herald Tribune Books (10 March 1929), 4, and FP (1929), 185, as two five-line stanzas; in later collections, as two quatrains. The alternative for line 8 was adopted. Poems (1955), 476; CP (1960), 305, with the alternative for line 8 adopted. MB (1981), 764, in facsimile. (J618). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F683A).
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Imported: 2013-10-21 13:00:14 -0400
Order: 4
Order Label: (214d) At leisure is the Soul, J618, Fr683
Label: (214d) At leisure is the Soul, J618, Fr683
Filename: ms_am_1118_3_214_0004

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F683A - At leisure is the soul

At leisure is the Soul
That gets a staggering Blow -
The Width of Life - before it
spreads
Without a thing to do -

It begs you give it Work -
But just the placing Pins -
Or humblest Patchwork -
Children may - do -
To Help it's Vacant Hands - still it's noisy Hands -

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First Line/Title: At leisure is the soul
Date: 1863
Edition: Franklin Variorum 1998
Number: F683A
Textual Notes: 3 spreads] runs
7 do -] may -
8 still it's noisy Hands -] Help it's Vacant Hands -
Division
3 it |
7 Patchwork - |

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Manuscript: About the second half of 1863, in Fascicle 32 (h 214).
Fascicle: 32 - 4
Notes: About the second half of 1863, in Fascicle 32 (h214).
Textual Notes: 3 spreads] runs
7 do -] may -
8 still it's noisy Hands -] Help it's Vacant Hands -
Division
3 it |
7 Patchwork - |
Publications: London Mercury, 19 (February 1929), 357-58, New York Herald Tribune Books (10 March 1929), 4, and FP (1929), 185, as two five-line stanzas; in later collections, as two quatrains. The alternative for line 8 was adopted. Poems (1955), 476; CP (1960), 305, with the alternative for line 8 adopted. MB (1981), 764, in facsimile. (J618)

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