You taught me Waiting with Myself --

Read 'You taught me Waiting with Myself --' by 'Emily Dickinson' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

You taught me Waiting with Myself -- by Emily Dickinson

 You taught me Waiting with Myself --
Appointment strictly kept --
You taught me fortitude of Fate --
This -- also -- I have learnt --

An Altitude of Death, that could
No bitterer debar
Than Life -- had done -- before it --
Yet -- there is a Science more --

The Heaven you know -- to understand
That you be not ashamed
Of Me -- in Christ's bright Audience
Upon the further Hand --

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