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Houghton Library - (198) My Triumph lasted till the Drums, J1227, Fr1212

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Credits: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XXXVI (mixed sets). Includes 8 poems, written in ink, with some pencil, ca. 1872
Houghton Library - (198) My Triumph lasted till the Drums, J1227, Fr1212
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Atlantic Monthly, 155 (June 1935), 703, and UP (1935), 3, as four quatrains. Poems (1955), 853-54; CP (1960), 540. MB (1981), 1279-80, in facsimile. (J1227). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1212A).
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Imported: 2013-10-21 13:02:21 -0400
Order: 11
Order Label: (198) My Triumph lasted till the Drums, J1227, Fr1212
Label: (198) My Triumph lasted till the Drums, J1227, Fr1212
Filename: ms_am_1118_3_198_0001

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J1227 - My Triumph lasted till the Drums

My Triumph lasted till the Drums
Had left the Dead alone
And then I dropped my Victory
And chastened stole along
To where the finished Faces
Conclusion turned on me
And then I hated Glory
And wished myself were They.

What is to be is best descried
When it has also been --
Could Prospect taste of Retrospect
The tyrannies of Men
Were Tenderer -- diviner
The Transitive toward.
A Bayonet's contrition
Is nothing to the Dead.

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First Line/Title: My Triumph lasted till the Drums
Date: 1872
Edition: Johnson Poems 1955
Number: J1227

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Year: 1872
Packet: 36
Manuscript: Manuscript: About 1872, in packet 36 (H 198).
Publications: Publication: Atlantic Monthly, CLV (June 1935), 703, titled "Glory"; UP (1935), 3, without title. The text is arranged as four quatrains.

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F1212A - My triumph lasted till the drums

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