Further Poems of Emily Dickinson/You taught me waiting with myself
YOU taught me waiting with myself
Appointment strictly kept,
You taught me fortitude of fate,
This also I have learnt.
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.
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.