Poems on the topic: doubt

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Emily Dickinson

Which is best? Heaven --

Which is best? Heaven -- Or only Heaven to come With that old Codicil of Doubt? I cannot help esteem The "Bird within the Hand" Superior to the one The "Bush" may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again.

Emily Dickinson

Their Height in Heaven comforts not --

Their Height in Heaven comforts not -- Their Glory -- nought to me -- 'Twas best imperfect -- as it was -- I'm finite -- I can't see -- The House of Supposition -- The Glimmering Frontier that Skirts the Acres of Perhaps -- To Me -- shows insecure -- The Wealth I had -- contented me -- If 'twas a meaner size -- Then I had counted it until It pleased my narrow Eyes -- Better than larger values -- That show however true -- This timid life of Evidence Keeps pleading -- "I don't know."

Emily Dickinson

So much of Heaven has gone from Earth

So much of Heaven has gone from Earth That there must be a Heaven If only to enclose the Saints To Affidavit given. The Missionary to the Mole Must prove there is a Sky Location doubtless he would plead But what excuse have I? Too much of Proof affronts Belief The Turtle will not try Unless you leave him -- then return And he has hauled away.

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