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Houghton Library - (70c) God made a little Gentian, J442, Fr520

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Credits: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XIV, Mixed Fasciles. Includes 33 poems, written in ink, ca. 1860-1862. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Houghton Library - (70c) God made a little Gentian, J442, Fr520
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Independent, 43 (5 February 1891), 1, and Poems (1891), 172, without stanza division. Poems (1955), 341; CP (1960), 211-12. MB (1981), 549, in facsimile. (J442). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F520A).
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Imported: 2013-10-21 13:02:11 -0400
Order: 7
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Label: (70c) God made a little Gentian, J442, Fr520
Filename: ms_am_1118_3_70_0003

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J442 - God made a little Gentian --

God made a little Gentian --
It tried -- to be a Rose --
And failed -- and all the Summer laughed --
But just before the Snows

There rose a Purple Creature --
That ravished all the Hill --
And Summer hid her Forehead --
And Mockery -- was still --

The Frosts were her condition --
The Tyrian would not come
Until the North -- invoke it --
Creator -- Shall I -- bloom?

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First Line/Title: God made a little Gentian --
Date: 1862
Edition: Johnson Poems 1955
Number: J442

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Year: 1862
Packet: 29
Manuscript: Manuscript: About 1862, in packet 29 (H 70c).
Publications: Publication: Independent, XLIII (5 Feb. 1891), 1, titled "Fringed Gentian"; Poems (1891), 172, titled "Fringed Gentian." It is without stanza division. Two words are altered: 5.rose] came 11. invoke] evoked

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P91-121 - FRINGED GENTIAN

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F520A - God made a little gentian

The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998