The Mind
The sweetest heresy received
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
The Mind
The sweetest heresy received
That man and woman know,
Each other's convert—
Though the faith accommodate but two.
The churches are so frequent,
The ritual so small,
The Grace so unavoidable,
To fail—is infidel.
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Dickinson, Emily. “The sweetest heresy received.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/594/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “The sweetest heresy received.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/594/.
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