Back to Index

Prayer is the little implement

by Emily Dickinson, 1891

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.

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series
Tags:

Any corrections or public domain poems I should have here? Email me at poems (at) this domain.