#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
456 So well that I can live without— I love thee—then How well is that… As well as Jesus? Prove it me
51 I often passed the village When going home from school— And wondered what they did there— And why it was so still—
145 This heart that broke so long— These feet that never flagged— This faith that watched for star i… Give gently to the dead—
381 A Secret told— Ceases to be a Secret—then— A Secret—kept— That—can appal but One—
The heart asks pleasure first And then, excuse from pain– And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep;
Come slowly, Eden Lips unused to thee. Bashful, sip thy jasmines, As the fainting bee,
807 Expectation—is Contentment— Gain—Satiety— But Satiety—Conviction Of Necessity
XLVI A THOUGHT went up my mind to—d… That I have had before, But did not finish,—some way back, I could not fix the year,
578 The Body grows without— The more convenient way— That if the Spirit—like to hide Its Temple stands, alway,
925 Struck, was I, not yet by Lightni… Lightning—lets away Power to perceive His Process With Vitality.
311 It sifts from Leaden Sieves— It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool The Wrinkles of the Road—
872 As the Starved Maelstrom laps the… As the Vulture teased Forces the Broods in lonely Valle… As the Tiger eased
A feather from the Whippoorwill That everlasting—sings! Whose galleries—are Sunrise— Whose Opera—the Springs— Whose Emerald Nest the Ages spin
453 Love—thou art high— I cannot climb thee— But, were it Two— Who know but we—
This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,- The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty Her message is committed
