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Hope is the Thing
with Feathers
Emily Dickinson
Little Orphant Annie
James W. Riley
St. Peter at the Gate
Joseph Bert Smiley
The Pied Piper
Robert Browning

Poems on Faith
by Emily Dickinson

MY FAITH IS LARGER
THAN THE HILLS

My Faith is larger than the Hills
So when the Hills decay
My Faith must take the Purple Wheel
To show the Sun the way

'Tis first He steps upon the Vane
And then upon the Hill
And then abroad the World He go
To do His Golden Will

And if His Yellow feet should miss
The Bird would not arise
The Flowers would slumber on their Stems
No Bells have Paradise

How dare I, therefore, stint a faith
On which so vast depends
Lest Firmament should fail for me
The Rivet in the Bands.

THE BOOK OF MARTYRS

Read, sweet, how others strove,
Till we are stouter;
What they renounced,
Till we are less afraid;
How many times they bore
The faithful witness,
Till we are helped,
As if a kingdom cared!

Read then of faith
That shone above the fagot;
Clear strains of hymn
The river could not drown;
Brave names of men
And celestial women,
Passed out of record
Into renown!

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"Emily called Cape Jasmin the holiest flower that grows," her sister, Lavinia Dickinson, recalled, "She was in love with every wild flower, and when we were little children we used to spend entire days in the woods hunting for treasures The most delicate and rare flowers never failed to bloom for Emily, however impossible their rearing was to others."

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