Sorry, Wrong Number

I have emailed and called the Poetry Foundation a few times about this error on their site, and they have NEVER emailed or called back. 

My plan is to provide this information to a contact at the Emily Dickinson Museum to see if they can help -- OR -- perhaps they can tell me I'm being too pedantic?  I dunno -- does this matter really matter?  LOL -- well, to me, it does!

Okay, so here's the problem:

The Poetry Foundation has various Dickinson poems linked on its site.  One, “It sifts through Leaden Sieves,” is shown as number 291 -- pictured at the right. 

Please note that this is the 5-stanza version of this poem; there is also a 3-stanza version – and the only thing the two poems have in common is the opening stanza. 

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​However, if you look at poem 291 in Johnson, it is “How the old Mountains drip with Sunset” (pictured at the right).

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Now, if you look up poem 291 in the Franklin edition of poems, it is indeed “It sifts through Leaden Sieves” – BUT – it is a different, 3-stanza version of the poem.  Compare this to the 5-stanza poem above; the only thing they have in common is the first stanza.

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The version of the poem shown on the Poetry Foundation site is, indeed, from the Johnson edition,  but it is number 311 pictured below  and NOT number 291:

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Am I being too pedantic and persnickety about this?  Does it matter?  I think it does!  ; - )

And just as a side note:  I have NOT looked through all of the other Dickinson poems on the PF site so I'm not sure exactly how wide-spread this numbering scandal is!  I'll check the others in the near future when I have a little bit more spare time (i.e., this summer).