Fascicle 6: Poem 16. 616/79-80/variant 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 16 (J 79-J 80: 1830-1886) Going to Heaven! I dont don't know when — , Pray do not ask me how ! ,— Indeed , I'm too astonished To think of answering you! Going to Heaven ! !— How dim it sounds! And yet it will be done As sure as flocks go home at night Unto the Shephard's shepherd's arm! Perhaps you're going too! Who knows? If you sh'd should get there first , Save just a little place space for me Close to the two I lost — ! The smallest Robe robe will fit me , And just a bit of Crown— crown; crown; For you know we do not mind our dress When we are going home — . I'm glad I dont don't believe it , For it w'd would stop my breath — , And I'd like to look a little more At such a curious Earth earth ! I am glad they did believe it Whom I have never found Since the mighty Autumn autumm afternoon I left them in the ground.