#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
I never hear the word 'escape’ Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation, A flying attitude. I never hear of prisons broad
Part One: Life LII VICTORY comes late, And is held low to freezing lips Too rapt with frost
Not “Revelation”—'tis—that waits, But our unfurnished eyes—
The Butterfly’s Assumption Gown In Chrysoprase Apartments hung This afternoon put on— How condescending to descend And be of Buttercups the friend
“Houses”'—so the Wise Men tell me… Houses—so the Wise Men tell me— “Mansions”! Mansions must be warm… Mansions cannot let the tears in, Mansions must exclude the storm!
292 If your Nerve, deny you— Go above your Nerve— He can lean against the Grave, If he fear to swerve—
553 One Crucifixion is recorded—only— How many be Is not affirmed of Mathematics— Or History—
His voice decrepit was with Joy - Her words did totter so How old the News of Love must be To make Lips elderly That purled a moment since with G…
232 The Sun—just touched the Morning— The Morning—Happy thing— Supposed that He had come to dwel… And Life would all be Spring!
777 The Loneliness One dare not sound… And would as soon surmise As in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size—
974 The Soul’s distinct connection With immortality Is best disclosed by Danger Or quick Calamity—
They dropped like flakes, they dro… Like petals from a rose, When suddenly across the June A wind with fingers goes. They perished in the seamless gras…
98 One dignity delays for all— One mitred Afternoon— None can avoid this purple— None evade this Crown!
771 None can experience sting Who Bounty—have not known— The fact of Famine—could not be Except for Fact of Corn—
A little Snow was here and there Disseminated in her Hair - Since she and I had met and playe… Decade had gathered to Decade - But Time had added not obtained
