A toad can die of light!
A toad can die of light!
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).
1A toad can die of light!
2Death is the common right
3 Of toads and men,--
4Of earl and midge
5The privilege.
6 Why swagger then?
8Is large as thine.
Notes
7] The existing manuscript version of poem 583, 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, 301; fascicle 14; PS 1541 A1 1981 ROBA), splits the two lines after "is". Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1896
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1997.
Rhyme