#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
IF I can stop one heart from brea… I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching… Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin
542 I had no Cause to be awake— My Best—was gone to sleep— And Morn a new politeness took— And failed to wake them up—
‘They have not chosen me,’ he said… ‘But I have chosen them!’ Brave’—Broken hearted statement’— Uttered in Bethlehem! I could not have told it,
There’s been a death in the opposi… As lately as to-day. I know it by the numb look Such houses have alway. The neighbors rustle in and out,
178 I cautious, scanned my little life… I winnowed what would fade From what would last till Heads l… Should be a-dreaming laid.
164 Mama never forgets her birds, Though in another tree— She looks down just as often And just as tenderly
993 We miss Her, not because We see— The Absence of an Eye— Except its Mind accompany Abridge Society
432 Do People moulder equally, They bury, in the Grave? I do believe a Species As positively live
782 There is an arid Pleasure— As different from Joy— As Frost is different from Dew— Like element—are they—
Lightly stepped a yellow star To its lofty place - Loosed the Moon her silver hat From her lustral Face - All of Evening softly lit
Air has no Residence, no Neighbor… No Ear, no Door, No Apprehension of Another Oh, Happy Air! Ethereal Guest at e’en an Outcast…
37 Before the ice is in the pools— Before the skaters go, Or any check at nightfall Is tarnished by the snow—
25 She slept beneath a tree— Remembered but by me. I touched her Cradle mute— She recognized the foot—
XCIX THERE is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry.
XL I NEVER lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod; Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God!
