Religion
God is a distant, stately Lover,
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
Religion
God is a distant, stately Lover,
Woos, so He tells us, by His Son.
Surely a vicarious courtship!
Miles' and Priscilla's such a one.
But lest the soul, like fair Priscilla,
Choose the envoy and spurn the Groom,
Vouches, with hyperbolic archness,
Miles and John Alden
Are synonym.
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Dickinson, Emily. “God is a distant, stately Lover.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/492/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “God is a distant, stately Lover.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/492/.
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