Fascicle 6: Poem 9. 609/77/variant ESCAPE. Emily Dickinson

Fascicle 6: Dickinson's variants and published versions

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ORIGINAL POEMS: Fascicle 6 Emily Dickinson The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Dickinson Thomas H. Johnson Boston Little, Brown and Company 1960 The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Centenary Edition Emily Dickinson Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1930 Poems, Second Series Emily Dickinson Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd Boston Roberts Brothers 1891 Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series (html version)
Poem 9 (J 77: 1830-1886) I never hear the word Escape escape Without a quicker blood, A sudden Expectation expectation , A flying attitude ! . I never hear of prisons broad By soldiers battered down, But I tug childish at my bar bars — ,— Only to fail again!