by
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Prayer is the little implement
Language: English
Available translation(s): GER
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
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Confirmed with Dickinson, Emily.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924; Bartleby.com, 2000. http://www.bartleby.com/113/1080.html
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Beten, heißt das kleine Instrument
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the English
Beten, heißt das kleine Instrument,
mit dem man schafft,
was einem abgelehnt.
Gebetes Kraft
so er es hört, dringt vor
an Gottes Ohr -
Gebet, kurz resümiert,
so funktioniert.
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This text was added to the website: 2018-05-09
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