The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
Emily Dickinson Archive
Let Us play Yesterday -I - the Girl at School - You - and Eternity - the untold Tale - Easing my famine At my Lexicon -Logarithm - had I - for Drink - 'Twas a dry Wine - Somewhat different - must be - Dreams tint the Sleep - Cunning Reds of MorningMake the Blind - leap - Still at the Egg-life - Chafing the Shell - When you troubled the Ellipse - And the Bird fell -Manacles be dim - they say - To the new Free - Liberty - commoner - Never could - to me - 'Twas my last gratitudeWhen I slept - at night - 'Twas the first Miracle Let in - with Light - Can the Lark resume the Shell - Easier - for the Sky -Would'nt Bonds hurt more Than Yesterday? Would'nt Dungeons sorer grate On the Man - free - Just long enough to taste -Then - doomed new -God of the Manacle As of the Free - Take not my Liberty Away from Me -