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Houghton Library - (97c) Bound a Trouble - and Lives will bear it -, J269, Fr240

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Credits: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XVIII, Fascicle 36. Includes 22 poems, written in ink, dated ca. 1863.
Houghton Library - (97c) Bound a Trouble - and Lives will bear it -, J269, Fr240
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UP (1935), 22, from the later version (B), with the alternative for line 3 adopted. Bingham, AB (1945), 22, the first stanza of the earlier version (A), as a quatrain. Poems (1955), 191-92 (A principal, B); CP (1960), 123 (A). MB (1981), 154 (A) and 874 (B), in facsimile. (J269). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F240B).
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Imported: 2013-10-21 12:59:24 -0400
Order: 4
Order Label: (97c) Bound a Trouble - and Lives will bear it -, J269, Fr240
Label: (97c) Bound a Trouble - and Lives will bear it -, J269, Fr240
Filename: ms_am_1118_3_97_0004

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F240B - Bound a trouble

Bound a Trouble - and
Lives will bear it -
Circumscription - enables Wo -
Still to anticipate - Were
no limit -
Who could begin on - were sufficient to Misery?

State it the Ages - to a
cipher -
And it will ache con - (contented)
tented on -
Sing, at it's pain, as any
Workman -
Notching the fall of the
even Sun -

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First Line/Title: Bound a trouble
Date: 1861
Edition: Franklin Variorum 1998
Number: F240B
Textual Notes: 3 anticipate] conjecture
4 were sufficient to] could begin on -
Division
1 and |
3 Were |
5 a |
6 contented] con - | tented
7 any |
8 of the |
6 Tell] State

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Manuscript: Two, variant, about 1861 and 1863, both in fascicles. The earlier one, made about summer 1861, is in Fascicle 9 (h 78).
Fascicle: 36 - 3
Notes: A later copy, transcribed about 1863, is in Fascicle 36 (h97).
Textual Notes: 3 anticipate] conjecture
4 were sufficient to] could begin on -
Division
1 and |
3 Were |
5 a |
6 contented] con - | tented
7 any |
8 of the |
6 Tell] State
Publications: UP (1935), 22, from the later version (B), with the alternative for line 3 adopted. Bingham, AB (1945), 22, the first stanza of the earlier version (A), as a quatrain. Poems (1955), 191-92 (A principal, B); CP (1960), 123 (A). MB (1981), 154 (A) and 874 (B), in facsimile. (J269)

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F240A - Bound a trouble

The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998

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