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
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924; Bartleby.com, 2000. http://www.bartleby.com/113/1080.html
Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "Prayer is the little implement", 1985 [ soprano and piano ], from In Reverence - 5 songs for Soprano and Piano, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2014-03-25
Line count: 8
Word count: 36