Lyric Poem · Nature
My Faith is larger than the Hills
1My Faith is larger than the Hills —
2So when the Hills decay —
3My Faith must take the Purple Wheel
4To show the Sun the way —
5'Tis first He steps upon the Vane —
6And then — upon the Hill —
7And then abroad the World He go
8To do His Golden Will —
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Quick facts
- Poem
- My Faith is larger than the Hills
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 16 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Nature, Dreams & Sleep
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- Shape
- 16 lines · 4 quatrains
- Line length
- Consistent with common metre. Alternating eight- and six-syllable lines — the hymn stanza (8.6.8.6), the most-used quatrain in English verse.
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBMy Faith is larger than the Hills by emily-dickinson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
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- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 c6c0c7240f73b043…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.