Lyric Poem · Love
"Faithful to the end" Amended
"Faithful to the end" Amended
From the Heavenly Clause —
Constancy with a Proviso
Constancy abhors —
"Crowns of Life" are servile Prizes
To the stately Heart,
Given for the Giving, solely,
No Emolument.
—
"Faithful to the end" Amended
From the Heavenly clause —
Lucrative indeed the offer
But the Heart withdraws —
"I will give" the base Proviso —
Spare Your "Crown of Life" —
Those it fits, too fair to wear it —
Try it on Yourself —
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Quick facts
- Poem
- "Faithful to the end" Amended
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 17 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Love
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- Shape
- 17 lines · 5 stanzas of 1–4 lines
- Refrains
- “"Faithful to the end" Amended”“From the Heavenly Clause —”“From the Heavenly clause —”Repeated lines act as the poem's hinge or drumbeat.
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDB"Faithful to the end" Amended by emily-dickinson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 7da33cced31c83bc…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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