WITHIN my reach!
I could have touched!
I might have chanced that way!
Soft sauntered through the village,
Sauntered as soft away!
So unsuspected, violets
Within the fields lie low;
Too late for striving fingers
That passed, an hour ago!
First print Life VII, 7
Johnson 90 | Franklin 69
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■→Poems, first print by Higginson and Todd, page 19;
Thematic arrangement into two stanzas; comma to mark off epitasis, So unsuspected, violets Within the fields lie low; fascicle final exclamation, for sustained emphatic effect, That passed, an hour ago!
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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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