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Amherst - Amherst Manuscript # 435 - The smouldering embers blush - asc:5445 - p. 1

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Amherst Manuscript # 435
Amherst - Amherst Manuscript # 435 - The smouldering embers blush - asc:5445 - p. 1

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BM (1945), 174, with the alternatives for lines 2, 3, and 6 ("seconds") and the transposition adopted. Poems (1955), 794, as an eight-line stanza, unfinished, with the transposition adopted; also CP (1960), 508, with the alternatives for lines 2, 3, and 6 ("seconds") adopted. (J1132). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1143A).
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Amherst Manuscript # 435
Franklin # 1143
Johnson Poems # 1132

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Box 5 Folder 73

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The smouldering embers blush

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https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/asc:5444

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asc:5445

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F1143A - The smouldering embers blush

The smouldering embers blush -
Oh Cheek within the Coal
Hast thou survived so many nights?
The smouldering embers smile -

Soft stir the Flakes stirs the news of Light
The stolid Rafters glow
One requisite has earthly [Fire Fire that lasts
Prometheus did not know never knew -

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First Line/Title: The smouldering embers blush
Date: 1868
Edition: Franklin Variorum 1998
Number: F1143A
Textual Notes: 2 Cheek] Heart (underscored twice)
3 nights] years (underscored twice)
3] written So many nights hast thou survived? and marked for transposition
5 stirs the news] stir the Flakes
6 Rafters] Hours • instants • centres • seconds (underscored twice)
7 Fire that lasts] earthly [Fire] • mortal [Fire] • thorough Fire
8 never knew] did not know
7-8]
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1 smouldering |
2 Cheek |
3 survived |
4 smouldering |
5 the |
6 Rafters |
7 has |
8 never |
alt 7-8 has |
alt 7-8 first |

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Manuscript: About 1868, in pencil on a leaf of stationery embossed with the letter T (a 435).
Notes: About 1868, in pencil on a leaf of stationery embossed with the letter T (a435).
Textual Notes: 2 Cheek] Heart (underscored twice)
3 nights] years (underscored twice)
3] written So many nights hast thou survived? and marked for transposition
5 stirs the news] stir the Flakes
6 Rafters] Hours • instants • centres • seconds (underscored twice)
7 Fire that lasts] earthly [Fire] • mortal [Fire] • thorough Fire
8 never knew] did not know
7-8]
Division
1 smouldering |
2 Cheek |
3 survived |
4 smouldering |
5 the |
6 Rafters |
7 has |
8 never |
alt 7-8 has |
alt 7-8 first |
Publications: BM (1945), 174, with the alternatives for lines 2, 3, and 6 ("seconds") and the transposition adopted. Poems (1955), 794, as an eight-line stanza, unfinished, with the transposition adopted; also CP (1960), 508, with the alternatives for lines 2, 3, and 6 ("seconds") adopted. (J1132)

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J1132 - The smouldering embers blush --

The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Johnson, 1955