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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. So give me back to death, recto.

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Credits: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. So give me back to death, recto.. Library ID: MMC

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BM (1945), 179, with the alternative adopted into line 8. Poems (1955), 1119-20, with the alternative assigned to line 8; CP (1960), 670. (J1632). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1653A).
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J1632 - So give me back to Death --

So give me back to Death --
The Death I never feared
Except that it deprived of thee --
And now, by Life deprived,
In my own Grave I breathe
And estimate it's size --
It's size is all that Hell can guess --
And all that Heaven surmise -- was --

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First Line/Title: So give me back to Death --
Date: 1884
Edition: Johnson Poems 1955
Number: J1632

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Year: 1884
Manuscript: Manuscript: About 1884 (Bingham 104-36).
Publications: Publication: BM (1945), 179. The suggested change is adopted.

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F1653A - So give me back to death

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