#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
XIX PAIN has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not.
598 Three times—we parted—Breath—and… Three times—He would not go— But strove to stir the lifeless F… The Waters—strove to stay.
917 Love—is anterior to Life— Posterior—to Death— Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth—
Years I had been from home, And now, before the door I dared not open, lest a face I never saw before Stare vacant into mine
217 Savior! I’ve no one else to tell— And so I trouble thee. I am the one forgot thee so— Dost thou remember me?
I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was la… In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed…
41 I robbed the Woods— The trusting Woods. The unsuspecting Trees Brought out their Burs and mosses
473 I am ashamed’—I hide’— What right have I’—to be a Bride’… So late a Dowerless Girl’— Nowhere to hide my dazzled Face’—
342 It will be Summer—eventually. Ladies—with parasols— Sauntering Gentlemen—with Canes— And little Girls—with Dolls—
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
310 Give little Anguish— Lives will fret— Give Avalanches— And they’ll slant—
Abraham to kill him Was distinctly told’— Isaac was an Urchin’— Abraham was old’— Not a hesitation’—
I breathed enough to learn the tri… And now, removed from air, I simulate the breath so well, That one, to be quite sure The lungs are stirless, must desce…
251 Over the fence— Strawberries—grow— Over the fence— I could climb—if I tried, I know—
I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains,
