From: LouisFors <LouisFors@aol.com>
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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:23:19 EDT
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Friends:

As we know, ED didn't like titles on poems.  Thomas H. Johnson says, however,
that she did supply titles for two poems *directly on the pages on which the
poems were written*.   Those two poems are now listed as # 15 and # 227,
below, although, for some reason, Johnson doesn't use the two itles in his
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.

# 15
The Guest is gold and crimson -
An Opal guest and gray -
Of Ermine is his doublet -
His Capuchin gay --

He reaches town at nightfall -
He stops at every door -
Who looks for him at morning
I pray him too - explore
The Lark's pure territory -
Or the Lapwing's shore!

#227
Teach Him - When He makes the names -
Such as one - to say -
On his babbling - Berry - lips  -
As should sound - to me -
Were my Ear - as near as his nest -
As my thought - today -
As should sound -
"Forbid us not" -
Some like "Emily."

There are two italicized words above-- "names" and "thought."  I don't know
how to signal that in this system.  

Nancy Pridgen searched out the titles for the two in Johnson's variorum
edition.  Maybe you read her message a couple of hours again giving those
titles.  If you didn't you can have some fun, before retrieving the titles she
found, by guessing what titles ED might have assigned.  If you did read
Nancy's discoveries you can still have fun seeing how the titles apply.  Then
there is always the tantalizing question of whether ED wrote the two titles
slant.  She's been know, after all,  not to spin her poems with easy reader
clarity in mind. 

If you can't find the titles Nancy dug up, shout.

Best to all,

Louis Forsdale