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Dejan Stojanovic
Faith
Dust to dust,
Ashes to ashes.
Is that all?
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Emily Dickinson
Lad of Athens, faithful be
Lad of Athens, faithful be
To Thyself,
And Mystery --
All the rest is Perjury --
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by
Emily Dickinson
"Faith" is a fine invention
"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see --
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Lives he in any other world
Lives he in any other world
My faith cannot reply
Before it was imperative
'Twas all distinct to me --
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by
Emily Dickinson
Triumph -- may be of several kinds
Triumph -- may be of several kinds --
There's Triumph in the Room
When that Old Imperator -- Death --
By Faith
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Emily Dickinson
Peace is a fiction of our Faith --
Peace is a fiction of our Faith --
The Bells a Winter Night
Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound
That never did alight.
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by
Friedrich von Schiller
My Faith
Which religion do I acknowledge? None that thou namest.
"None that I name? And why so?"--Why, for religion's own sake?
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by
Emily Dickinson
Falsehood of Thee could I suppose
Falsehood of Thee could I suppose
'Twould undermine the Sill
To which my Faith pinned Block by Block
Her Cedar Citadel.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Warm in her Hand these accents lie
Warm in her Hand these accents lie
While faithful and afar
The Grace so awkward for her sake
Its fond subjection wear --
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Emily Dickinson
Those final Creatures, -- who they are --
Those final Creatures, -- who they are --
That, faithful to the close,
Administer her ecstasy,
But just the Summer knows.
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Robert Southey
Birth-Day Ode 01
O my faithful Friend!
O early chosen, ever found the same,
And trusted and beloved! once more the verse
Long destin'd, always obvious to thine ear,
Attend indulgent.
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Robert Burns
337. Song—Fragment—Altho’ he has left me
ALTHO’ he has left me for greed o’ the siller,
I dinna envy him the gains he can win;
I rather wad bear a’ the lade o’ my sorrow,
Than ever hae acted sae faithless to him.
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William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXLI
In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who in despite of view is pleased to dote;
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Walt Whitman
Thought.
OF obedience, faith, adhesiveness;
As I stand aloof and look, there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses
of
men,
following the lead of those who do not believe in men.
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Emily Dickinson
A first Mute Coming --
A first Mute Coming --
In the Stranger's House --
A first fair Going --
When the Bells rejoice --
A first Exchange -- of
What hath mingled -- been --
For Lot -- exhibited to
Faith -- alone --
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Vachel Lindsay
Look You, I'll Go Pray
Look you, I'll go pray,
My shame is crying,
My soul is gray and faint,
My faith is dying.
Look you, I'll go pray —
"Sweet Mary, make me clean,
Thou rainstorm of the soul,
Thou wine from worlds unseen."
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Emily Dickinson
Unfulfilled to Observation --
Unfulfilled to Observation --
Incomplete -- to Eye --
But to Faith -- a Revolution
In Locality --
Unto Us -- the Suns extinguish --
To our Opposite --
New Horizons -- they embellish --
Fronting Us -- with Night.
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Emily Dickinson
To mend each tattered Faith
To mend each tattered Faith
There is a needle fair
Though no appearance indicate --
'Tis threaded in the Air --
And though it do not wear
As if it never Tore
'Tis very comfortable indeed
And spacious as before --
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Emily Dickinson
He who in Himself believes --
He who in Himself believes --
Fraud cannot presume --
Faith is Constancy's Result --
And assumes -- from Home --
Cannot perish, though it fail
Every second time --
But defaced Vicariously --
For Some Other Shame --
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Emily Dickinson
That she forgot me was the least
That she forgot me was the least
I felt it second pain
That I was worthy to forget
Was most I thought upon.
Faithful was all that I could boast
But Constancy became
To her, by her innominate,
A something like a shame.
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Emily Dickinson
To lose one's faith -- surpass
To lose one's faith -- surpass
The loss of an Estate --
Because Estates can be
Replenished -- faith cannot --
Inherited with Life --
Belief -- but once -- can be --
Annihilate a single clause --
And Being's -- Beggary --
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Emily Dickinson
Not to discover weakness is
Not to discover weakness is
The Artifice of strength --
Impregnability inheres
As much through Consciousness
Of faith of others in itself
As Pyramidal Nerve
Behind the most unconscious clock
What skilful Pointers move --
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Emily Dickinson
The sweetest Heresy received
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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Emily Dickinson
'Tis customary as we part
'Tis customary as we part
A trinket -- to confer --
It helps to stimulate the faith
When Lovers be afar --
'Tis various -- as the various taste --
Clematis -- journeying far --
Presents me with a single Curl
Of her Electric Hair --
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by
Emily Dickinson
He found my Being -- set it up --
He found my Being -- set it up --
Adjusted it to place --
Then carved his name -- upon it --
And bade it to the East
Be faithful -- in his absence --
And he would come again --
With Equipage of Amber --
That time -- to take it Home --
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