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Circuit I - (01) A Route of Evanescence (Humming Bird) (J-1463) (F-1489) | |||||
(1) A Route of Evanescence With a revolving Wheel (2) A Resonance of Emerald A Rush of Cochineal, (3) And every Blossom on the Bush Adjusts its tumbled Head. (4) The Mail from Tunis, probably, An easy Morning's Ride. (Below: an original manuscript version for above, without editing or imposed lineation, Franklin #D. See index for more of Dickinson's step, ramble and road poems.) (1) A Route of Evanescence With a revolving Wheel (2) A Resonance of Emerald A Rush of Cochineal (3) And every Blossom on the Bush Adjusts it's tumbled Head (4) The Mail from Tunis, probably, An easy Morning's Ride
~ Emily Dickinson
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Commentary adapted from Emily Dickinson's Poems & Letters | |||||
(1) "All we secure of beauty is it's evanescences." ~ (L #781) | |||||
(1)
"What tenements of clover are fitting for the bee . . . what residences nimble arise and evanesce." ~ (J-1338) (F-1358) | |||||
(1)
"Within my garden, rides a bird
upon a single wheel whose spokes a dizzy music make as 'twere a travelling mill." ~ (J-0500) (F-0370) | |||||
(1-4) "The orioles fly by me as I write." ~ (L #825) | |||||
(2) "Cochineal I chose for deeming It resemble Thee And the little Border Dusker For resembling Me." ~ (J-0748) (F-0786) | |||||
(3) "Blossoms are so peculiarly consecrated . . ." ~ (L #527) | |||||
(3-4)
"And when the humming birds come down geranium and I shut our eyes and go far away." ~ (L #235) | |||||
(3-4)
"When I am rather low-spirited nothing seems to cheer me so much as a letter from a friend." ~ (L #8) | |||||
(3-4)
"A letter is a joy of earth it is denied the gods." ~ (L #963) (J-1639) (F-1672) | |||||
(4)
"Count not that far that can be had,
though sunset lie between nor that adjacent, that beside, is further than the sun." ~ (J-1074) (F-1124) | |||||
(4)
ref. compare Shakespeare: the sun delivering
mail from Tunis: The Tempest Act II "She that is Queen of Tunis; she that dwells Ten leagues beyond man's life; she that from Naples Can have no note, unless the sun were post." (Dickinson & Shakespeare) | |||||
(4)
"There will be romance in [my] letter's ride to you think of the hills and the dales, and the rivers it will pass over, and the drivers and conductors who will hurry it on to you; and won't that make a poem such as can ne'er be written?" ~ (L #77) | |||||
(4)
"I write from the Land of Violets, and from the Land of Spring." ~ (L #85) | |||||
(4) "My letter as a bee, goes laden." ~ (L #133) | |||||
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