Notes
1] "Hope": the 1891 edition lacks the quotation marks.
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Original text: The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, edited by R. W. Franklin in volumes (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981; PS 1541 A1 1981 ROBA): I, 264 (fascicle 13).
First publication date:
1891
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1997.
Recent editing: 2:2002/4/3
Composition date:
1861
Rhyme: abcb (irregular)