Emily Dickinson

I Live with Him I See His Face

poem 463

I Live with Him I See His Face - meaning Summary

Divine Companion Present

The speaker describes an intimate, continual companionship with a divine presence that removes distance between life and death. She claims permanence in this relationship—no marriage or formal claim, yet a private, sustaining union that renders death a local, singular event. Hearing the voice and living "today," she affirms the certainty of immortality. Time and experience have shaped a daily conviction that life persists beyond earthly judgment.

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I live with Him I see His face I go no more away For Visitor or Sundown Death’s single privacy The Only One forestalling Mine And that by Right that He Presents a Claim invisible No wedlock granted Me I live with Him I hear His Voice I stand alive Today To witness to the Certainty Of Immortality Taught Me by Time the lower Way Conviction Every day That Life like This is stopless Be Judgment what it may

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