EMILY DICKINSON

 

 

Poem 1403

"My maker -let me be
Enamoured most of Thee-"
(Dickinson, 1960, 601)

   
 

Poem 1163

"God made no act without a cause
Nor heart without an aim."
(Ibid, 518)

   
 

Poem 623

How excellent the heaven-
When earth cannot be had-
How hospitable-then-the face
Of our old neighbor-God-.
(ibid, 307)

   
 

Poem 357

God is a distant stately lover
Woos as He states us - by His son
Verily a vicarious courtship
"Miles" and "Priscilla," were such an one.
((Ibid, 169)