Notes
4] tassels: fine hairs found at the end of corn husks
17-18] The existing manuscript version of poem 445, 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, 349-50; fascicle 16; PS 1541 A1 1981 ROBA), reads:
And would it blur the Christmas glee
My stocking hang too high
19] The existing manuscript version reads "For any Santa Claus to reach".
22] The existing manuscript version reads "And so I thought the other way".
23] When: the existing manuscript version reads "How".
24] Themselves: the existing manuscript version reads "Themself".
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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:
1896
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1997
Recent editing: 2:2002/5/31
Composition date:
1862
Rhyme: abcb (off-rhyme)