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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.

Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.

Emily Dickinson

Heaven, Failing, Found

Emily Dickinson, “Who Has Not Found The Heaven - Below”

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

Emily Dickinson

Death, Encouragement, Heaven

"My life closed twice before its close" l. 7 (unknown date)

I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.

Emily Dickinson

Faith, Sea, Heaven

Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.343, Harvard University Press

Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true

Emily Dickinson

Knights, Heaven, Earth

Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.15, Harvard University Press

I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.

Emily Dickinson

Sweet, Thinking, Heaven

Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2417, Delphi Classics

Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...

Emily Dickinson

Squirrels, Heaven, Afternoon

Source: www.npr.org

So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.

Emily Dickinson

Heaven, Lasts, Preaching

Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.115, Harvard University Press

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

Emily Dickinson

Love, Heaven, Earth

Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.244, Harvard University Press

THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more.

Emily Dickinson

Doors, Waiting, Heaven

Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.300, First Avenue Editions

I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.

Emily Dickinson

Mean, Knowing, Heaven

Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.39, Harvard University Press