#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
793 Grief is a Mouse— And chooses Wainscot in the Breas… For His Shy House— And baffles quest—
18 The Gentian weaves her fringes— The Maple’s loom is red— My departing blossoms Obviate parade.
XVII WHEN night is almost done, And sunrise grows so near That we can touch the spaces, It ’s time to smooth the hair
“Houses”'—so the Wise Men tell me… Houses—so the Wise Men tell me— “Mansions”! Mansions must be warm… Mansions cannot let the tears in, Mansions must exclude the storm!
353 A happy lip—breaks sudden— It doesn’t state you how It contemplated—smiling— Just consummated—now—
936 This Dust, and its Feature— Accredited—Today—Will in a s… Cease to identify— This Mind, and its measure—
XXX WE play at paste, Till qualified for pearl, Then drop the paste, And deem ourself a fool.
21 We lose—because we win— Gamblers—recollecting which Toss their dice again!
348 I would not paint—a picture— I’d rather be the One It’s bright impossibility To dwell—delicious—on—
404 How many Flowers fail in Wood— Or perish from the Hill— Without the privilege to know That they are Beautiful—
It dropped so low in my regard I heard it hit the ground, And go to pieces on the stones At bottom of my mind; Yet blamed the fate that fractured…
XXII I GAVE myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life Was ratified this way.
I many times thought Peace had co… When Peace was far away’— As Wrecked Men’—deem they sight t… At Centre of the Sea’— And struggle slacker’—but to prove
202 My Eye is fuller than my vase— Her Cargo—is of Dew— And still—my Heart—my Eye outweig… East India—for you!
940 On that dear Frame the Years had… Yet precious as the House In which We first experienced Lig… The Witnessing, to Us—