Radical Scatters

Autonomous Fragments

The following fragments, identified by document catalog number and first line(s), are considered autonomous fragments; they do not appear in part or in their entirety in other extant texts in Dickinson's oeuvre. A single document may carry several different kinds of texts, including poems, messages, and fragments; here entries point specifically to the autonomous fragment(s) on a given document, rather than to the document as a whole. Selection of an entry from this index accesses the "Reading View" of the document. For further discussion regarding both "autonomous" and "trace" fragments, see "'Most Arrows': Autonomy and Intertextuality in Emily Dickinson's Late Fragments."

• A 144 [The mower is | tuning his scythe]
• A 156 [Dont you think | you could (would) un]
• A 175 [for Light would | certainly find it]
• A 186 [Fly - fly - but as you fly -]; [Paradise is no Journey]
• A 214 [Honey grows Everywhere]
• A 233 [I held it so | tight that I]
• A 249 / 250 [Undertow of | the Organ -]; [Solomon says | that no matter]
• A 254 / 255 [Incredible the | Lodging]
• A 320 [One note from | One Bird]
• A 331 [Pompeii - | All it's (the) occupations]
• A 351 / 352 [Society for me | my misery]
• A 359 [Still (Stern) as the | Profile of a]; [There is a | fashion in]
• A 361 [I feel Barefoot all over]
• A 380 [The Blood is more]
• A 444 [The consciousness of | subsiding power is]
• A 523 [who ever heard | of the Blest]
• A 538 [A cold yet | parched alarm]
• A 539 [There are those | who are shallow]
• A 540 [necessitates | celerity]
• A 638 [We do not think | enough of the]
• A 746 [I wonder we | ever leave the]
• A 750 [The withdrawal | of the Fuel of]
• A 760 [When it becomes | necessary for us]
• A 761 [Common Sense | is almost as om-]
• A 785 [The little | sentences]
• A 821 [Afternoon and | the West and]
• A 822 [and the Seasons | take their hushed]
• A 838 [close - Anguish has but (just) so many]
• A 840 [A little late | for spring but]
• A 841 [As it takes but a moment]
• A 842 [As there are | Apartments in our]
• A 843 [But are not | all Facts Dreams]
• A 844 [But ought not the | Amanuensis also to]
• A 850 [Death being the | first form of]
• A 851 [Did you ever | read one of]
• A 852 [Eve gave (left) her pretty Gowns to]
• A 853 [Flowers are | so enticing]
• A 858 [I saw two Bushes]
• A 861 [I should think a faded]; [To | might | a climate of]
• A 862 [2 It has a Roof at the]
• A 863 [It is essential to]
• A 864 [lonesome as occupations]
• A 866 [Nothing is so | old as a]
• A 867 [a similar mirage | of thought -]; [Nothing is so res- | onant with]
• A 868 [Of our deepest delights]
• A 869 [Science is very near us -]
• A 870 [Sir | Christopher | wren is]
• A 871 [Spirit cannot be | moved by Flesh -]; [of | is always | we are always | in danger of]
• A 872 [Stolidity is more dreadful (terrible)]
• A 875 [The Fatherless | Serpent -]
• A 876 [To know whether | we are in]
• A 877 [Train | up a | Heart in]
• A 878 [Two things | I have lost]
• A 879 [We must travel | abreast with]
• A 880 [We (he) said she said]
• A 883 [What Lethargies | of Loneliness -]
• A 884 [Why offer | Hue - to you -]
• A 887 [Is not the Election]; [How inval- | uable to be]
• A 888 [The Grass is the]; [+Dim (+weary -) is the Heavenly]; [I dont keep the]; [The Leaves are very]; [Mansions of | Mirage -]