SEARCHING for Emily Dickinson

[Delila]

I’m frantically searching for the text to a poem believed to be written by Emily Dickinson. It is entitled CHARTERED or CHARTER. It is for a dying friend.
Your time is appreicated.

[bibliophage]

I can’t find a poem of that title, and I can find only one poem by her that even contains the word “charter”

Part Three: Love

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MINE by the right of the white election!
Mine by the royal seal!
Mine by the sign in the scarlet prison
Bars cannot conceal!

Mine, here in vision and in veto! 5
Mine, by the grave’s repeal
Titled, confirmed,—delirious charter!
Mine, while the ages steal!

http://www.bartleby.com/113/3001.html

[bibliophage]

Posted too soon. I found two more.

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I could die – to know –
'Tis a trifling knowledge –
News-Boys salute the Door –
Carts – joggle by –
Morning’s bold face – stares in the window –
Were but mine – the Charter of the least Fly –

Houses hunch the House
With their Brick Shoulders –
Coals – from a Rolling Load – rattle – how – near –
To the very Square – His foot is passing –
Possibly, this moment –
While I – dream – Here –

and

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Could Hope inspect her Basis
Her Craft were done –
Has a fictitious Charter
Or it has none –

Balked in the vastest instance
But to renew –
Felled by but one assassin –
Prosperity –

http://members.aol.com/GivenRandy/r_emily.htm

[RM_Mentock]

A lot of her poems are untitled, right? So, maybe you saw a poem of hers that had been supplied a title–maybe charter wasn’t even in the poem?

Here’s one ED poem about dying (IJLQED):

The dying need but little, dear,–
A glass of water’s all,
A flower’s unobtrusive face
To punctuate the wall.

A fan, perhaps, a friend’s regret,
And certainly that one
No color in the rainbow
Perceives when you are gone.