Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn
Indicative that suns go down;
The notice to the startled grass
That darkness is about to pass.
First print Nature XVI, 16
Johnson 764 | Franklin 487
Text compared with the fascicle and published as in the first print by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson; does not require adjustment, public domain worldwide, no rights reserved.
■Poems, first print by Higginson and Todd, page 88;
■Notes for Emily Dickinson’s poetry;
Poems one-by-one print and fascicle comparison,
■Resource for Emily Dickinson’s poetry;
■Google Drive, manuscript fascicles.
The plural suns suggests the Proto-Indo-European theory by William Jones, propagated in the poet’s times; please compare ■No man, woman, child, or house, with the pie, and the Notes, link below.
Notes for Emily Dickinson’s poetry
Fascicles and print, the poetic correlative with Webster 1828, Latin and Greek inspiration, and an Aristotelian motif, Things perpetual — these are not in time, but in eternity. ■More