Talk:Poems (Dickinson)/The last night that she lived

Latest comment: 3 months ago by Beleg Tâl

The text does not accord with "The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, R.W. Franklin, Belknap, Harvard University Press, 1998, #1100, page 958. Stanza 3 of the text is missing here. Stanza 6 has an earlier text Franklin rejected. Here is the variorum text:

She mentioned, and forgot- Then lightly as a Reed Bent to the Water, struggled scarce - Consented, and was dead -

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.208.120.120 (talk)

This text is from the 1890 volume edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson, so it will vary from other editions. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 20:16, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply