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Houghton Library - (40a) My Portion is Defeat - today -, J639, Fr704

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Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet IX, Fascicle 33. Includes 16 poems, written in ink, dated ca. 1862.
Houghton Library - (40a) My Portion is Defeat - today -, J639, Fr704
Publication History
Saturday Review of Literature, 5 (9 March 1929), 751, and FP (1929), 126, with the alternatives adopted and the text in twenty-two lines without stanza division; in later collections, in eighteen lines. Poems (1955), 491-92; CP (1960), 316. MB (1981), 791-92, in facsimile. (J639). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F704A).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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