Skip directly to:
Main content
Main navigation
University of Virginia Library
Search this document
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
[section]
[My nosegays are for captives]
I. LIFE.
II. LOVE.
III. NATURE.
IV. TIME AND ETERNITY.
1.
[I. Let down the bars, O Death]
2.
[II. Going to heaven]
3.
[III. At least to pray is left, is left]
4.
IV. EPITAPH.
5.
[V. Morns like these we parted]
6.
[VI. A death-blow is a life-blow to some]
7.
[VII. I read my sentence steadily]
8.
[VIII. I have not told my garden yet]
9.
IX. THE BATTLE-FIELD.
10.
[X. The only ghost I ever saw]
11.
[XI. Some, too fragile for winter winds]
12.
[XII. As by the dead we love to sit]
13.
XIII. MEMORIALS.
14.
[XIV. I went to heaven]
15.
[XV. Their height in heaven comforts not]
16.
[XVI. There is a shame of nobleness]
17.
XVII. TRIUMPH.
18.
[XVIII. Pompless no life can pass away]
19.
[XIX. I noticed people disappeared]
20.
XX. FOLLOWING.
21.
[XXI. If anybody's friend be dead]
22.
XXII. THE JOURNEY.
23.
XXIII. A COUNTRY BURIAL.
24.
XXIV. GOING.
25.
[XXV. Essential oils are wrung]
26.
[XXVI. I lived on dread; to those who know]
27.
[XXVII. If I should die]
28.
XXVIII. AT LENGTH.
29.
XXIX. GHOSTS.
30.
XXX. VANISHED.
31.
XXXI. PRECEDENCE.
32.
XXXII. GONE.
33.
XXXIII. REQUIEM.
34.
[XXXIV. What inn is this]
35.
[XXXV. It was not death, for I stood up]
36.
XXXVI. TILL THE END.
37.
XXXVII. VOID.
38.
[XXXVIII. A throe upon the features]
39.
XXXIX. SAVED!
40.
[XL. I think just how my shape will rise]
41.
XLI. THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE.
42.
[XLII. Lay this laurel on the one]
Collapse All
|
Expand All
Poems by Emily Dickinson
82
LIV.
PRAYER.
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.
Poems by Emily Dickinson