Presentiment

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

■→IN POLISH

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

Poems
Life | Love | Nature | Time and Eternity

---

ADVERTISEMENT