Lyric Poem · Life
To mend each tattered Faith
To mend each tattered Faith
There is a needle fair
Though no appearance indicate —
'Tis threaded in the Air —
And though it do not wear
As if it never Tore
'Tis very comfortable indeed
And spacious as before —
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“To mend each tattered Faith” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/to-mend-each-tattered-faith
Quick facts
- Poem
- To mend each tattered Faith
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Life, Short
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
- Line length
- Consistent with short metre. Two short lines, one longer, one short (6.6.8.6) — the short hymn stanza.
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- Author record
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Source record
- PoetryDBTo mend each tattered Faith 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 489004dfd657bad0…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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