#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
II OUR share of night to bear, Our share of morning, Our blank in bliss to fill, Our blank in scorning.
348 I would not paint—a picture— I’d rather be the One It’s bright impossibility To dwell—delicious—on—
64 Some Rainbow—coming from the Fair… Some Vision of the World Cashmer… I confidently see! Or else a Peacock’s purple Train
Oh Shadow on the Grass, Art thou a Step or not? Go make thee fair my Candidate My nominated Heart - Oh Shadow on the Grass
437 Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence—is denied them. They fling their Speech
One need not be a chamber to be ha… One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. Far safer, of a midnight meeting
1510 How happy is the little Stone That rambles in the Road alone, And doesn’t care about Careers And Exigencies never fears—
470 I am alive—I guess— The Branches on my Hand Are full of Morning Glory— And at my finger’s end—
483 A Solemn thing within the Soul To feel itself get ripe— And golden hang—while farther up— The Maker’s Ladders stop—
The earth has many keys, Where melody is not Is the unknown peninsula. Beauty is nature’s fact. But witness for her land,
404 How many Flowers fail in Wood— Or perish from the Hill— Without the privilege to know That they are Beautiful—
604 Unto my Books—so good to turn— Far ends of tired Days— It half endears the Abstinence— And Pain—is missed—in Praise—
My River runs to thee’— Blue Sea! Wilt welcome me? My River wait reply’— Oh Sea’—look graciously’— I’ll fetch thee Brooks
491 While it is alive Until Death touches it While it and I lap one Air Dwell in one Blood
597 It always felt to me—a wrong To that Old Moses—done— To let him see—the Canaan— Without the entering—