Content:
Page proof with handwritten information on the poem's initial publication
in the
Critic
on 5 January
1889. Retitled "To the
Pending Year," it was included in
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891) and, as part of the "Good-Bye my Fancy" annex, in the so-called deathbed edition of
Leaves of Grass
(1891–92).
