The Blood is more showy than the Breath –
But cannot dance as well –
However, according to the chart on Wikipedia, this poem was included in a 1945 volume published by Mabel Loomis Todd & Millicent Todd Bingham entitled “Bolts of Memory: New Poems of Emily Dickinson.”
I tried to find an online copy of this book to confirm, but at best, I found a copy with a limited preview – so I could not determine if the poem is actually in the volume or not (I found a review of the book, and I plan to read that later).
The final two poems not linked on Wikipedia are "To lose – if one can find again” and “To him who keeps on Orchis’ heart,” and in this case the poems are linked – but in a round-about way – and it’s related to the poem “All these my banners be.” Johnson lumps all three of these poems into one (so the linked first line is “All these my banners be”), but Franklin has them separated as three separate poems – as does Miller in her 2016 edition of Dickinson’s poems.
By the way, for “To lose – if one can find again,” Miller includes this note: According to Amherst Academy textbook “Familiar Lectures on Botany,” by Almira H. Lincoln (1815), the crocus was ‘Saint Valentine’ and therefore ‘perculiarly saced to affection’ because it often blooms in mid-February, when snow is still on the ground. The daisy and columbine bloom midspring.” For “To him who keeps an Orchis’ heart,” Miller includes this information: “Probably refers to grass pink (Calopogon pulchellus), which has magenta-pink flowers and is found in bogs and marshy areas. ED included fourteen species of orchid in her herbarium.” |