Fascicle 16: Dickinson's variants and published versions
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ORIGINAL POEMSEmily DickinsonPoems, Second SeriesEmily DickinsonThomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis ToddBostonRoberts Brothers1891Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series (html version)The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Centenary EditionEmily DickinsonMartha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete HampsonBostonLittle, Brown and Company1930Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's PoemsEmily DickinsonThomas H. JohnsonBostonLittle, Brown and Company1961
Poem 1 (J 327: 1862/1891)Before I got my Eyeeye put out—,I liked as well to see—As other Creaturescreatures, that have Eyeseyes—,And know no other way—.But were it told to me, —Todayto-day,—That I might have the SkyskyFor mine, —I tell you that my HeartheartWould split, for size of me—.The Meadowsmeadows—mine—, the mountains mine,—The Mountains—mine—All Forestsforests—, StintlessstintlessStarsstars—,As much of noonNoon, as I could take—Between my finite Eyeseyes—.The Motionsmotions of the DippingdippingBirdsbirds—,The Lightning's jointed Road—Morning's Amber Road—lightning's jointed road,For mine—to look at when I liked,,——The newsNews would strike me dead—!So, safer—, guess—, with just my soulUpon the window panewindow-paneWindow pane—Where other Creaturescreatures put their Eyeseyes—,Incautious—of the Sunsun—.