The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
Emily Dickinson Archive
Promise This - When You be Dying -Some oneSome shall summon Me - Mine belong Your latest Sighing - Mine - to Belt Your Eye - Not with Coins - though they be MintedFrom An Emperor's Hand - Be my lips - the only Buckle Your low Eyes - demand - Mine to stay - when all have wandered - To devise once moreIf the Life be too surrendered - Life of Mine - restore - Poured like this - Mybest Whole Libation - Just that You should see Bliss of Death - Life's Bliss extol thro'Imitating You - Mine - to guard Your Narrow Precinct - Toentice - • persuade seduce the Sun latestLongest on Your South, to linger, newest - • freshestLargest Dews of MornTo demand, in Your low favor - Lest the Jealous Grass Greener lean - Orlater linger fonder cluster Round some other face - Mine to supplicate Madonna -If Madonna be Couldregard behold sosmall - • dim far a Creature - Christ - omitted - Me - stillJust to follow Your dear feature - Ne'er so far behind -For My Heaven - Had I not been Most enough - denied?