The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
Emily Dickinson Archive
I'm ceded - I've stopped being Their's -The name They dropped opon my face With water, in the country church Is finished using, now, And They can put it with my Dolls,My childhood, and the string of spools, I've finished threading - too - Baptized, before, without the choice, But this time, consciously, Of Grace - Unto supremest name -Called to my Full - The Crescent dropped - Existence'ssurmise wholeRim • Eye Arc, filled up,Withjust one one - small Diadem - My second Rank - too small the first - Crowned -whimpering • dangling Crowing - on my Father's breast -An insufficient QueenA too unconscioushalf unconscious QueenBut this time - Adequate - Erect, Withpower Will to choose, Or to reject, And I choose, just aThrone Crown -