Work Metadata

Manuscript

Three (one in part), variant, about 1877. The first is a two-stanza worksheet, with trial readings and two cancellations (a 268).

Notes

Three (one in part), variant, about 1877. The first is a two-stanza worksheet, with trial readings and two cancellations (a268).

Textual Notes

1 Lay] repeated at beginning of line 2: Lay -
3 your] interlined above thy
3 your] y over y
4 cannot] could not
7 your] interlined below thy
8 is] was -
8] Him you chastened that was he
Division
2 and |
5 the | one ||
7 your |
8 chastenest - |

alt 8 chastened |
Division
1 Laurel |
2 and |
3 your |
4 could |
5 Laurel |

5 one no | (but indicated)
6 Too |
7 your |
8 chasten - |
Division
1 this |
1 on |
2 intrinsic |
3 vail |
3 deathless |

4 you |
4 that |

Publications

Poems (1891), 230, the stanza from the letter to Higginson (C) from his transcript (a to29). Letters (1931), 293, the stanza in the letter to Higginson (C). Bingham, New England Quarterly, 20 (March 1947), 15, as two stanzas, from the fair copy of the eight-line version (B). Johnson, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (Autumn 1953), 267-69 (A unredacted, B, C). Poems (1955), 960-62 (A unredacted, B, C principal); CP (1960), 597 (C). Letters (1958), 583 (C). (J1393)