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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Two: Love 36. My worthiness is all my doubt

LOVE'S HUMILITY.


My worthiness is all my doubt,

His merit all my fear,

Contrasting which, my qualities

Do lowlier appear;


Lest I should insufficient prove

For his beloved need,

The chiefest apprehension

Within my loving creed.


So I, the undivine abode

Of his elect content,

Conform my soul as 't were a church

Unto her sacrament.