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Transcriptions of Emily Dickinson's Writing
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"A Cap of Lead across / the sky"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST21d |
"A full-fed rose"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST21a |
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"A lane of Yellow led the Eye"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST25b |
"A Word made flesh is seldom"
< transcription 1, transcription 2 > Manuscript Location: H ST14c-d |
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"Advance is Life's condition"
< transcription 1, transcription 2 > Manuscript Location: H ST22c |
"As one noble act makes a whole"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST21b |
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"As we pass Houses musing slow"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST17d |
"Beauty crowds me till I die"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST1b |
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"Conferring with myself"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST23d |
"Count not that far, that can be / had"
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Manuscript Location: H ST23a | P 1074
mid-1860s | Letters (ed. 1894), 172; (ed. 1931), 166;
also LL 202; and LH 75.
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"Down Time's quaint stream"
< transcription 1, transcription 2 > Manuscript Location: H ST16e-17a |
"Eden is that old-fashioned House"
< transcription 1, transcription 2 > Manuscript Location: H ST21c |
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"Elijah's wagon knew no thill"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST1e P 1254 | mid-1870s | SH 102.
Such transcripts are especially important for analyzing Sue's editorial practices.
Johnson notes that this poem is based on 2 Kings 2:11:
And it came to pass, as they still went on,
and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire,
and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder;
and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
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"Endanger it, and the Demand"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST1c |
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"Fame is a fickle food"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST8c |
"Forever cherished be the tree"
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Manuscript Location: H ST17e
P 1570 (manuscript to Susan lost) | 1880s | SH 6; LH 176.
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"Glory is that bright tragic / thing"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST7d |
"Guest am I to have"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST16a |
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"He went by sleep that drowsy route -"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST13c |
"His mind of man, a secret makes"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST19b |
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"Ho Pilot Ho!" ["On this wondrous sea"]
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST24 |
"How destitute is he"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST7a |
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"How soft this Prison is"
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Manuscript Location: H ST22b
P 1334 | late January 1875 | LH (1951), 102 (version sent to Elizabeth Holland;
stanzas sent to Sue rendered above were unpublished until variorum).
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"I did not reach Thee"
< transcription 1, transcription 2 > Manuscript Location: H ST12 |
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"I know of people in the Grave"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST9b |
"I see thee clearer for the Grave"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST4b |
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"I watched her face to see which way"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST13b |
"If I could tell how glad I was"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST18b |
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"In Winter in my Room"
< transcription 1, transcription 2 > Manuscript Location: H ST25c-26a |
"In snow thou comest"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST14b |
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"Judgment is justest"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST11b |
"Lightly stepped a yellow star"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST7b |
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"Nature can do no more"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST17c |
"No dreaming can compare with / reality"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST17b |
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"Not Revelation t'is that / waits"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST22a |
"Not any sunny tone"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST23b |
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"Of Yellow was the outer Sky"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST20c |
"Of this is Day composed"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST2c |
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"On my volcano grows the Grass"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST26b |
"On this wondrous sea"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST23e |
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"Peril as a Possession"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST7c |
"Rather arid delight"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST16b |
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"Remembrance has a rear and front"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST9a |
"Sometimes with the Heart"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST18d |
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"Speech is one symptom of affection"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST4a |
"Summer begins to have the look"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST3 |
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"T'is easier to pity those when dead"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST16c |
"T'was comfort in her Dying Room"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST25a |
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"That she forgot me was the / least"
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Manuscript Location: H ST15b
[For the crossed lines, see H ST26b; FP 1743]
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"That was a beautiful passage"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST20d |
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"The Blunder is in estimate"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST2a |
"The Butterfly's Assumption / Gown"
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Manuscript Location: H ST10a
P 1244 | mid-1870s | Poems (1890), 95.
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"The Frost of Death was on the / Pane"
< transcription 1, transcription 2 >
Manuscript Location: H ST15a
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"The Hills erect their Purple Heads"
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Manuscript Description: H ST18e
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"The Look of thee, what is it like"
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Manuscript Location: H ST20a
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"The Sun retired to a cloud"
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Manuscript Location: H ST13a
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"The butterfly obtains"
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Manuscript Location: H ST8a
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"The event was directly behind / Him"
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Manuscript Location: H ST18a
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"The gleam of an heroic act"
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Manuscript Location: H ST1a
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"The ones that disappeared are / back"
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Manuscript Location: H ST6
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"The overtakelessness of those"
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Manuscript Locations: H ST22d
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"The rat is the concisest / tennant"
< transcription 1, transcription 2 >
Manuscript Location: H ST8b
Compare this version with another version: H 348 [access restricted].
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"The right to perish might be / thot"
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Manuscript Location: H ST18c
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"The wind drew off"
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Manuscript Location: H ST8d
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"There is a solitude of space"
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Manuscript Location: H ST5
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"These are the days that / Reindeer love"
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Manuscript Location: H ST10b
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"They talk as slow as Legends grow"
< transcription 1, transcription 2 >
Manuscript Location: H ST20b
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"To do a magnanimous thing"
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Manuscript Location: H ST19a
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"To see her is a picture"
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Manuscript Location: H ST23c
P 1568 (ms. to Susan lost) | 1880s
New England Quarterly, XX (1947), 49; LH 172; AB 378; SH 137.
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"To tell the Beauty would decrease"
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Manuscript Location: H ST1d
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"To their apartment deep"
< transcription > Manuscript Location: H ST27 |
"Today or this noon"
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Manuscript Location: H ST11a
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"Volcanoes be in Sicily"
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Manuscript Location: H ST2b
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"When we have ceased to care"
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Manuscript Location: H ST22e
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"Winter under cultivation"
< transcription >
Manuscript Location: H ST16d
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"Witchcraft has not a pedigree"
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Manuscript Location: H ST13d
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"With sweetness unabated"
< transcription 1, transcription 2 >
Manuscript Location: H ST13e-14a
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