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Houghton Library - (134c) One Anguish - in a Crowd -, J565, Fr527

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Credits: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XXV, Fascicle 28. Includes 23 poems, written in ink, dated ca. 1862.
Houghton Library - (134c) One Anguish - in a Crowd -, J565, Fr527
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BM (1945), 258-59, from a transcript of A (a tr386), with the alternative for line 15 adopted. Poems (1955), 432; CP (1960), 275. MB (1981), 643, in facsimile. (J565). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F527A).
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Imported: 2013-10-21 13:02:08 -0400
Order: 3
Order Label: (134c) One Anguish - in a Crowd -, J565, Fr527
Label: (134c) One Anguish - in a Crowd -, J565, Fr527
Filename: ms_am_1118_3_134_0003

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J565 - One Anguish -- in a Crowd --

One Anguish -- in a Crowd --
A Minor thing -- it sounds --
And yet, unto the single Doe
Attempted of the Hounds

Tis Terror as consummate
As Legions of Alarm
Did leap, full flanked, upon the Host --
'Tis Units -- make the Swarm --

A Small Leech -- on the Vitals --
The sliver, in the Lung --
A leakage in The Bung out -- of an Artery --
Are scarce computed accounted -- Harms --

But Yet mighty -- by relation
To that Repealless thing --
A Being -- impotent to stop -- end --
When once it has begun --

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First Line/Title: One Anguish -- in a Crowd --
Date: 1862
Edition: Johnson Poems 1955
Number: J565

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Year: 1862
Packet: 25
Manuscript: Manuscript: About 1862, in packet 25 (H 134c).
Publications: Publication: BM (1945), 258-259. The text derives from a transcript made by Mrs. Todd. The suggested change in line 15 is adopted.

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F527A - One anguish in a crowd

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