#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
How fits his Umber Coat The Tailor of the Nut? Combined without a seam Like Raiment of a Dream - Who spun the Auburn Cloth?
155 The Murmur of a Bee A Witchcraft—yieldeth me— If any ask me why— ’Twere easier to die—
356 The Day that I was crowned Was like the other Days— Until the Coronation came— And then—'twas Otherwise—
It struck me every day The lightning was as new As if the cloud that instant slit And let the fire through. It burned me in the night,
908 ’Tis Sunrise—Little Maid—Hast T… No Station in the Day? ’Twas not thy wont, to hinder so— Retrieve thine industry—
600 It troubled me as once I was— For I was once a Child— Concluding how an Atom—fell— And yet the Heavens—held—
804 No Notice gave She, but a Change… No Message, but a Sigh— For Whom, the Time did not suffic… That She should specify.
99 New feet within my garden go— New fingers stir the sod— A Troubadour upon the Elm Betrays the solitude.
714 Rest at Night The Sun from shining, Nature—and some Men— Rest at Noon—some Men—
434 To love thee Year by Year— May less appear Than sacrifice, and cease— However, dear,
576 I prayed, at first, a little Girl… Because they told me to— But stopped, when qualified to gue… How prayer would feel—to me—
372 I know lives, I could miss Without a Misery— Others—whose instant’s wanting— Would be Eternity—
727 Precious to Me—She still shall be… Though She forget the name I bear… The fashion of the Gown I wear— The very Color of My Hair—
Come slowly, Eden Lips unused to thee. Bashful, sip thy jasmines, As the fainting bee,
938 Fairer through Fading—as the Day Into the Darkness dips away— Half Her Complexion of the Sun— Hindering—Haunting—Perishing—