Apocalypse

I‘M wife; I’ve finished that,
That other state;
I’m Czar, I’m woman now:
It’s safer so.

How odd the girl’s life looks
Behind this soft eclipse!
I think that Earth seems so
To those in Heaven now.

This being comfort, then
That other kind was pain;
But why compare?
I’m wife! stop there!

First print Love, poem XVI, 16
Johnson 199 | Franklin 225

■→IN POLISH

Text compared with the fascicle and prepared for publication by Teresa Pelka, available under any of the following licenses:
■Creative Commons License 4.0, BY-SA 3.0, and License 2.5.

■→Poems, first print by Higginson and Todd, page 63;
First print verbal to seem gets along with the verb to look better than the fascicle suggested to feel. Heaven and Earth capitalized, the fascicle word shape “folks” rejected as too colloquial, with regard to Emily Dickinson’s style generally: and the name ■→Voltaire was most probably known to her, Heaven to stand for good existence after death, a ■→Deity’s decree to decide.

■→Notes for Emily Dickinson’s poetry;
Poems one-by-one print and fascicle comparison,
■→Resource for Emily Dickinson’s poetry;
■→Google Drive, manuscript fascicles.

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