It sifts from Leaden Sieves. | Affiliated Manuscripts

A 73 (Fr291D)

ca. 1871

Ink | Fair copy

On wove, cream, unruled stationery

Poem enclosed in a message to T. W. Higginson.

It sifts from
Leaden Sieves.
It powders all
the Wood –
It fills with
Alabaster Wool
The Wrinkles
of the Road –

 

It scatters
like the Birds –
Condenses like
a Flock,
Like Juggler′s
Flowers situates

 

 

Recipient

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (b. 1823–d. 1911)

Writer, critic, social activist, friend; with the exception of Susan Gilbert Dickinson, Higginson is Dickinson’s most constant correspondent.

Inclusive dates of correspondence: April 1862-May 1886. Letters: 70; poems: 103.

Address: 16 Harvard Street, Worcester, Mass.

Distance Travelled: 37 miles