As by the dead we love to sit, / Become so wondrous dear, / As for the lost we grapple, / Though all the rest are here,—
a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “As by the dead we love to sit”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, Second Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1891, page 193