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By Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed. / To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need.
- Source
- Poems by Emily Dickinson (first series), 1890 · Book I, Life, "Success", p. 13
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- Internet Archive (scan of the Roberts Brothers edition, Boston, 1890)
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The first stanza of "Success" from Poems by Emily Dickinson, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890), Book I, Life, no. I. The early editors changed some of her punctuation and wording, so this is the 1890 text, not her manuscript. Verse lines are separated by a slash (/).