Susan Grieves for Emily
from Thomas H. Johnson's The Poems of Emily Dickinson

441

This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me -
The simple News that Nature told -
With tender Majesty

Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see -
For love of Her - Sweet - countrymen -
Judge tenderly - of Me

from R. W. Franklin's The Poems of Emily Dickinson

519

This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me -
The simple News that Nature told -
With tender Majesty

Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see -
For love of Her - Sweet - countrymen -
Judge tenderly - of Me
Ellen Hart's transcription

This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to me -
The simple News that Nature told -
With tender Majesty

Her Message is Committed
To Hands I Cannot see -
For love of Her - Sweet - Country-
men -
Judge tenderly - of me

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