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Houghton Library - (192a) What Twigs We held by, J1086, Fr1046

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Credits: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XXXV, Mixed Fascicles. Includes 25 poems, written in ink, ca. 1866. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Houghton Library - (192a) What Twigs We held by, J1086, Fr1046
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UP (1935), 24, as two stanzas of ten and four lines. Poems (1955), 767-68; CP (1960), 492. MB (1981), 1255-56, in facsimile. (J1086). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1046A).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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Imported: 2013-10-21 13:02:51 -0400
Order: 17
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Label: (192a) What Twigs We held by, J1086, Fr1046
Filename: ms_am_1118_3_192_0001

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J1086 - What Twigs We held by --

What Twigs We held by --
Oh the View
When Life's swift River striven through
We pause before a further plunge
To take Momentum --
As the Fringe

Upon a former Garment shows
The Garment cast,
Our Props disclose
So scant, so eminently small
Of Might to help, so pitiful
To sink, if We had labored, fond
The diligence were not more blind

How scant, by everlasting Light
The Discs that satisfied Our Sight --
How dimmer than a Saturn's Bar
The Things esteemed, for Things that are!

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First Line/Title: What Twigs We held by --
Date: 1866
Edition: Johnson Poems 1955
Number: J1086

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Year: 1866
Packet: 35
Manuscript: Manuscript: About 1866, in packet 35 (H 192a).
Publications: Publication: UP (1935), 24. The text is arranged in fourteen lines with stanza division for the last four lines only. The misreading "another" for "a further" (line 4) is corrected in Poems (current).

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F1046A - What twigs we held by

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