Emily Dickinson

Episode 635

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re concluding our series on Life, Eternity, and Hope using selections from the reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson. Today we’re reading “Hope is the thing with feathers.”

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

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Episode 634

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Life, Eternity, and Hope using selections from the reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson. Today we’re reading a selection from “Behind Me dips Eternity.”

Behind Me — dips Eternity —
Before Me — Immortality —
Myself — the Term between —
Death but the Drift of Eastern Gray,
Dissolving into Dawn away,
Before the West begin —

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Episode 633

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Life, Eternity, and Hope using selections from the reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson. Today we’re reading “The body grows outside.”

The body grows outside, ––
The more convenient way, ––
That if the spirit like to hide,
Its temple stands alway

Ajar, secure, inviting;
It never did betray
The soul that asked its shelter
In timid honesty.
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Episode 632

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Life, Eternity, and Hope using selections from the reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson. Today we’re reading “Departed to the judgment.”

Departed to the judgment,
A mighty afternoon;
Great clouds like ushers leaning,
Creation looking on.

The flesh surrendered, cancelled,
The bodiless begun;
Two worlds, like audiences, disperse
And leave the soul alone.

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Episode 631

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re resuming our series on Life, Eternity, and Hope using selections from the reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson. Today we’re reading a selection from “This World is not Conclusion.”

This World is not Conclusion.
A Species stands beyond –
Invisible, as Music –
But positive, as Sound –
It beckons, and it baffles –
Philosophy – don’t know –
And through a Riddle, at the last –
Sagacity, must go – …

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Episode 620

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Life, Eternity, and Hope using selections from the reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson. Today we’re reading “How happy is the little stone.”

How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And doesn’t care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.

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Episode 619

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Life, Eternity, and Hope using selections from the reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson. Today we’re reading “There is a solitude of space.”

There is a solitude of space,
A solitude of sea,
A solitude of death, but these
Society shall be,
Compared with that profounder site,
That polar privacy,
A Soul admitted to Itself:
Finite Infinity.

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Episode 618

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Life, Eternity, and Hope using selections from the reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson. Today we’re reading “If I can stop one heart from breaking.”

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

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Episode 617

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on Life, Eternity, and Hope using selections from the reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson. Today we’re reading “To tell the beauty would decrease.”

To tell the beauty would decrease,
To state the Spell demean,
There is a syllableless sea
Of which it is the sign.

My will endeavours for its word
And fails, but entertains
A rapture as of legacies––
Of introspective mines.

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Episode 616

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re beginning our series on Life, Eternity, and Hope using selections from the reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson. Today we’re reading “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”

Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —

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