SHE went as quiet as the dew
From a familiar flower.
Not like the dew did she return
At the accustomed hour!
She dropt as softly as a star
From out my summer’s eve;
Less skillful than Le Verrier
It’s sorer to believe!
First print Time and Eternity XVIII, 28
Johnson 149 | Franklin 159
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■→Poems, first print by Higginson and Todd, page 140;
■→Le Verrier rather than Leverrier.
■Notes for Emily Dickinson’s poetry;
Poems one-by-one print and fascicle comparison,
■Resource for Emily Dickinson’s poetry;
■Google Drive, manuscript fascicles.
Poems by Emily Dickinson prepared for print by Teresa Pelka: thematic stanzas, notes on the Greek and Latin inspiration, the correlative with Webster 1828, and the Aristotelian motif, Things perpetual — these are not in time, but in eternity.
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