"The mob within the heart / Police cannot suppress / The riot given at the first / Is authorized as peace."
— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Author
Date
1945
Metaphor
"The mob within the heart / Police cannot suppress / The riot given at the first / Is authorized as peace."
Metaphor in Context
The mob within the heart
Police cannot suppress
The riot given at the first
Is authorized as peace
Uncertified of scene
Or signified of sound
But growing like a hurricane
In a congenial ground.
Police cannot suppress
The riot given at the first
Is authorized as peace
Uncertified of scene
Or signified of sound
But growing like a hurricane
In a congenial ground.
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Text from The Emily Dickinson Archive, Franklin Variorum (1998).
EDA gives for Publications: BM (1945), 99, from the Todd transcript, with the alternative adopted. Poems (1955), 1173, from the Todd transcript; also CP (1960), 707. (J1745).
Reading Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961). Poem is numbered 571, p. 318.
EDA gives for Publications: BM (1945), 99, from the Todd transcript, with the alternative adopted. Poems (1955), 1173, from the Todd transcript; also CP (1960), 707. (J1745).
Reading Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961). Poem is numbered 571, p. 318.
Date of Entry
07/31/2024
