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As imperceptibly as grief

As imperceptibly as grief  The summer lapsed away, —  Too imperceptible, at last,  To seem like perfidy.  A quietness distilled,  As twilight long begun,  Or Nature, spending with herself  Sequestered afternoon.  The dusk drew earlier in,  The morning foreign shone, —  A courteous, yet harrowing grace,  As guest who would be gone.  And thus, without a wing,  Or service of a keel,  Our summer made her light escape  Into the beautiful.

Composition Date: ca. 1865.

Form: abcb (off-rhyme)1.

The poem is differently divided in the existing manuscript version,

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:

II, 1069; set 5;

PS 1541 A1 1981

BA). 12. who: the existing manuscript version of poem 1540 reads "that".14. keel: flat-bottomed boat

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little known during her life, she has since been regarded as …

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