Slow Progress is Still Progress

THIS POST UPDATES MY POST "ALL ABOUT EVE" from 12/30/24, HERE

At the end of December 2024, I looked up how often Dickinson used the word “eve” in her poems.  This was for a post on New Year’s Eve.

If you type in “eve” on the online Dickinson archive, 11 entries pop up, and they represent 5 poems:
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1. Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine (also known as “Valentine Week”)
2. Besides the autumn poets sing
3. Better – than music! For I who heard it –
4. I bring an unaccustomed wine
5. She went as quiet as the dew

However, only four of these poems includes the word “eve.”  That fourth one, “I bring an unaccustomed wine” does not. 

Say what?  Then why does it appear on the list?
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It turns out that the archive has accidentally merged the first three lines of “I bring an unaccustomed wine” with the final fourteen lines of “Beside the autumn poets sing” (the portion of the poem with the word “eve”).

I emailed the archive peeps at the end of the year, and I heard back from them today:
 
“Thank you for reporting this issue and I apologize on the delay in my response. I have forwarded along your message to our Emily Dickinson Archive team to take a look. Please let me know if there is anything else that I can assist with in the meantime.”

Sooo…slow progress is still progress!  ; )