#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
Luck is not chance It’s Toil Fortune’s expensive smile Is earned The Father of the Mine
LXXXVI A LADY red upon the hill Her annual secret keeps; A lady white within the field In placid lily sleeps!
938 Fairer through Fading—as the Day Into the Darkness dips away— Half Her Complexion of the Sun— Hindering—Haunting—Perishing—
62 “Sown in dishonor”! Ah! Indeed! May this “dishonor” be? If I were half so fine myself
29 If those I loved were lost The Crier’s voice would tell me— If those I loved were found The bells of Ghent would ring—
577 If I may have it, when it’s dead, I’ll be contented—so— If just as soon as Breath is out It shall belong to me—
426 It don't sound so terrible—quite—a… I run it over—"Dead", Brain, "De… Put it in Latin—left of my school… Seems it don't shriek so—under rul…
Abraham to kill him Was distinctly told’— Isaac was an Urchin’— Abraham was old’— Not a hesitation’—
XXXVI I NEVER hear the word “escape” Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation, A flying attitude.
Of so divine a Loss We enter but the Gain, Indemnity for Loneliness That such a Bliss has been.
I never saw a moor; I never saw the sea, Yet know I how the heather looks And what a billow be. I never spoke with God,
913 And this of all my Hopes This, is the silent end Bountiful colored, my Morning ros… Early and sere, its end
695 As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea— And that—a further—and the Three But a presumption be—
Let me not mar that perfect Dream By an Auroral stain But so adjust my daily Night That it will come again. Not when we know, the Power accos…
243 I’ve known a Heaven, like a Tent— To wrap its shining Yards— Pluck up its stakes, and disappear… Without the sound of Boards