Notes
3] anodynes: pain-killing drugs
8] liberty: the existing manuscript version, poem 536, reads "privilege" (The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, edited by R. W. Franklin in two volumes (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981: I, 586; fascicle 25; PS 1541 A1 1981 ROBA).
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Original text: Poems (1890-1896) by Emily Dickinson: A Facsimile Reproduction of the Original Volumes Issued in 1890, 1891, and 1896, with an Introduction by George Monteiro (Gainesville, Florida: Scholars' Facsimiles).
First publication date:
1890
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1997
Recent editing: 2:2002/5/31
Composition date:
1862
Rhyme: abcb