At the end of Emily Dickinson's poem "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed," she quotes the sixth stanza of this poem by using the line "to the windows run," but she inverts the meaning in this poem by having the saints come to the window to see Christ's return.
At the end of Emily Dickinson's poem "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed," she quotes the sixth stanza of this poem by using the line "to the windows run," but she inverts the meaning in this poem by having the saints come to the window to see Christ's return. This poem's second stanza has the line "The best of men had scarcely then/Their Lamps kept in good ure," referring to the parable of the ten virgins in Matthew. Its prefatory cites First Corinthians when the speaker notes he has "adventured/To play the fool this once for Christ." The 100th and final stanza begins, "Without true faith, the scriptures saith,/God cannot take delight." Written by its author after his other work, Meat Out of the Eater, this poem bears the subtitle "a poetical description of the great and last judgment, and was the most widely read book besides the Bible in 17th century America. FTP, name this didactic poem by Michael Wigglesworth.
At the end of Emily Dickinson's poem "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed," she quotes the sixth stanza of this poem by using the line "to the windows run," but she inverts the meaning in this poem by having the saints come to the window to see Christ's return.
"The Day of Doom"