As imperceptibly as Grief | Affiliated Manuscripts

A 92-5/6 (Fr935B)

ca. 1865, winter

Ink | Fair copy | Unbound (bifolium/"set")

On wove, cream, lightly-ruled stationery

Retained in Dickinson's archive.
As imperceptibly as Grief
The Summer lapsed away –
Too imperceptible at last
To feel like Perfidy –

A Quietness distilled –
As Twilight long begun –
Or Nature – spending
with Herself
Sequestered Afternoon –


Sobriety inhered

Though gaudy influence
The Maple lent unto
the Road
And graphic Consequence

 

+Invested sombre place –
As suddenly be worn
By sober Individual
A Homogenous Gown –