Poems for Youth Quotes

“Prayer is the little implement
Through which men reach
Where presence is denied them.
They fling their speech

By means of it in God's ear;
If then He hear,
This sums the apparatus
Comprised in prayer.”
― Emily Dickinson, POEMS

“I should have been too glad, I see,
Too lifted for the scant degree
Of life's penurious round;
My little circuit would have shamed
This new circumference, have blamed
The homelier time behind.

I should have been too saved, I see,
Too rescued; fear too dim to me   
That I could spell the prayer
I knew so perfect yesterday, —
That scalding one, "Sabachthani,"   
Recited fluent here.

Earth would have been too much, I see,
And heaven not enough for me;   
I should have had the joy
Without the fear to justify, —
The palm without the Calvary;   
So, Saviour, crucify.

Defeat whets victory, they say;
The reefs in old Gethsemane   
Endear the shore beyond.
‘T is beggars banquets best define;
'T is thirsting vitalizes wine, —   
Faith faints to understand.”
― Emily Dickinson, POEMS