#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
439 Undue Significance a starving man… To Food— Far off—He sighs—and therefore—Ho… And therefore—Good—
This was a Poet —It is That Distills amazing sense From ordinary Meanings — And Attar so immense From the familiar species
96 Sexton! My Master’s sleeping here… Pray lead me to his bed! I came to build the Bird’s nest, And sow the Early seed—
A Cloud withdrew from the Sky Superior Glory be But that Cloud and its Auxiliarie… Are forever lost to me Had I but further scanned
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
The Beggar at the Door for Fame Were easily supplied But Bread is that Diviner thing Disclosed to be denied
To mend each tattered Faith There is a needle fair Though no appearance indicate ’Tis threaded in the Air And though it do not wear
Out of sight? What of that? See the Bird —reach it! Curve by Curve —Sweep by Sweep — Round the Steep Air — Danger! What is that to Her?
The wind begun to rock the grass With threatening tunes and low,— He flung a menace at the earth, A menace at the sky. The leaves unhooked themselves fro…
Two butterflies went out at noon And waltzed above a stream, Then stepped straight through the… And rested on a beam; And then together bore away
1000 The Fingers of the Light Tapped soft upon the Town With “I am great and cannot wait So therefore let me in.”
410 The first Day’s Night had come— And grateful that a thing So terrible—had been endured— I told my Soul to sing—
236 If He dissolve – then – there is… Eclipse – at Midnight – It was dark – before – Sunset – at Easter –
A still – Volcano – Life – That flickered in the night – When it was dark enough to do Without erasing sight – A quiet – Earthquake Style –
761 From Blank to Blank— A Threadless Way I pushed Mechanic feet— To stop—or perish—or advance—
