Johnson: 1645
Manuscript: “[P]encil, on the inside of an unsent envelope addressed by ED to Frank Gilbert at the Hotel Vendome in Boston”
(Dickinson, Emily. “1679.” The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition. Ed. R. W. Franklin. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1998. 1470. Print.)
Manuscript Link:
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The Ditch is dear to the Drunken man
For is it not his Bed - his Advocate - his Edifice -
How safe his fallen Head
In her disheveled Sanctity -
Above him is the sky -
Oblivion bending over him
And Honor leagues away -
Emily-dickinson released The Ditch is dear to the Drunken man (Fr1679) on Thu Jan 01 1885.