#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
Because I could not stop for Deat… He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselv… And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
20 Distrustful of the Gentian— And just to turn away, The fluttering of her fringes Child my perfidy—
The Butterfly in honored Dust Assuredly will lie But none will pass the Catacomb So chastened as the Fly -
The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,— The sweeping up the heart,
849 The good Will of a Flower The Man who would possess Must first present Certificate
Are Friends Delight or Pain? Could Bounty but remain Riches were good - But if they only stay Ampler to fly away
917 Love—is anterior to Life— Posterior—to Death— Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth—
384 No Rack can torture me— My Soul—at Liberty— Behind this mortal Bone There knits a bolder One—
282 How noteless Men, and Pleiads, st… Until a sudden sky Reveals the fact that One is rapt Forever from the Eye—
805 This Bauble was preferred of Bees… By Butterflies admired At Heavenly—Hopeless Distances— Was justified of Bird—
940 On that dear Frame the Years had… Yet precious as the House In which We first experienced Lig… The Witnessing, to Us—
Who were “the Father and the Son” We pondered when a child, And what had they to do with us And when portentous told With inference appalling
394 ’Twas Love’—not me’— Oh punish’—pray’— The Real one died for Thee’— Just Him’—not me’—
827 The Only News I know Is Bulletins all Day From Immortality. The Only Shows I see—
273 He put the Belt around my life I heard the Buckle snap— And turned away, imperial, My Lifetime folding up—