#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
160 Just lost, when I was saved! Just felt the world go by! Just girt me for the onset with E… When breath blew back,
Some Days retired from the rest In soft distinction lie The Day that a Companion came Or was obliged to die
129 Cocoon above! Cocoon below! Stealthy Cocoon, why hide you so What all the world suspect? An hour, and gay on every tree
56 If I should cease to bring a Rose Upon a festal day, ‘Twill be because beyond the Rose I have been called away—
612 It would have starved a Gnat— To live so small as I— And yet I was a living Child— With Food’s necessity
364 The Morning after Woe— ’Tis frequently the Way— Surpasses all that rose before— For utter Jubilee—
10 My wheel is in the dark! I cannot see a spoke Yet know its dripping feet Go round and round.
488 Myself was formed’—a Carpenter’— An unpretending time My Plane’—and I, together wrought Before a Builder came’—
Epigram THIS is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,— The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty.
There cam a Wind like a Bugle - It quivered through the Grass And a Green Chill upon the Heat So ominous did pass We barred the Windows and the Doo…
208 The Rose did caper on her cheek— Her Bodice rose and fell— Her pretty speech—like drunken men… Did stagger pitiful—
88 As by the dead we love to sit, Become so wondrous dear— As for the lost we grapple Tho’ all the rest are here—
I years had been from home, And now, before the door, I dared not open, lest a face I never saw before Stare vacant into mine
859 A Doubt if it be Us Assists the staggering Mind In an extremer Anguish Until it footing find.
469 The Red—Blaze—is the Morning— The Violet—is Noon— The Yellow—Day—is falling— And after that—is none—