#Americans #Women #XIXCentury Life
947 Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause? “A Soul has gone to Heaven” I’m answered in a lonesome tone— Is Heaven then a Prison?
549 That I did always love I bring thee Proof That till I loved I never lived—Enough—
540 I took my Power in my Hand— And went against the World— ’Twas not so much as David—had— But I—was twice as bold—
Silence is all we dread. There’s Ransom in a Voice - But Silence is Infinity. Himself have not a face.
188 Make me a picture of the sun— So I can hang it in my room— And make believe I’m getting warm When others call it “Day”!
257 Delight is as the flight— Or in the Ratio of it, As the Schools would say— The Rainbow’s way—
485 To make One’s Toilette—after Dea… Has made the Toilette cool Of only Taste we cared to please Is difficult, and still—
675 Essential Oilsare wrung The Attar from the Rose Be not expressed by Sunsalone It is the gift of Screws
742 Four Trees—upon a solitary Acre— Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action— Maintain—
858 This Chasm, Sweet, upon my life I mention it to you, When Sunrise through a fissure dr… The Day must follow too.
631 Ourselves were wed one summer—dear… Your Vision—was in June— And when Your little Lifetime fai… I wearied—too—of mine—
734 If He were living—dare I ask— And how if He be dead— And so around the Words I went— Of meeting them—afraid—
945 This is a Blossom of the Brain— A small—italic Seed Lodged by Design or Happening The Spirit fructified—
63 If pain for peace prepares Lo, what “Augustan” years Our feet await! If springs from winter rise,
The Butterfly upon the Sky, That doesn’t know its Name And hasn’t any tax to pay And hasn’t any Home Is just as high as you and I,