#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
FORBIDDEN fruit a flavor has That lawful orchards mocks; How luscious lies the pea within The pod that Duty locks!
XVIII READ, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid;
282 How noteless Men, and Pleiads, st… Until a sudden sky Reveals the fact that One is rapt Forever from the Eye—
496 As far from pity, as complaint— As cool to speech—as stone— As numb to Revelation As if my Trade were Bone—
915 Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye
433 Knows how to forget! But could It teach it? Easiest of Arts, they say When one learn how
802 Time feels so vast that were it no… For an Eternity— I fear me this Circumference Engross my Finity—
353 A happy lip—breaks sudden— It doesn’t state you how It contemplated—smiling— Just consummated—now—
497 He strained my faith— Did he find it supple? Shook my strong trust— Did it then—yield?
How firm Eternity must look To crumbling men like me The only Adamant Estate In all Identity - How mighty to the insecure
’Twas such a little—little boat That toddled down the bay! ’Twas such a gallant—gallant sea That beckoned it away! ’Twas such a greedy, greedy wave
859 A doubt if it be Us Assists the staggering Mind In an extremer Anguish Until it footing find.
193 I shall know why—when Time is ove… And I have ceased to wonder why— Christ will explain each separate… In the fair schoolroom of the sky—
’Twas comfort in her Dying Room To hear the living Clock— A short relief to have the wind Walk boldly up and knock— Diversion from the Dying Theme
410 The first Day’s Night had come— And grateful that a thing So terrible—had been endured— I told my Soul to sing—