#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
725 Where Thou art—that—is Home— Cashmere—or Calvary—the same— Degree—or Shame— I scarce esteem Location’s Name—
49 I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod. Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God!
310 Give little Anguish— Lives will fret— Give Avalanches— And they’ll slant—
366 Although I put away his life— An Ornament too grand For Forehead low as mine, to wear… This might have been the Hand
LXV GOOD night! which put the candle… A jealous zephyr, not a doubt. Ah! friend, you little knew How long at that celestial wick
457 Sweet—safe—Houses—Glad—gay—House… Sealed so stately tight— Lids of Steel—on Lids of Marble— Locking Bare feet out—
To flee from memory Had we the Wings Many would fly Inured to slower things Birds with surprise
VIII A wounded deer leaps highest, I ’ve heard the hunter tell; ’T is but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still.
509 If anybody’s friend be dead It’s sharpest of the theme The thinking how they walked alive… At such and such a time—
590 Did you ever stand in a Cavern’s… Widths out of the Sun— And look—and shudder, and block yo… And deem to be alone
504 You know that Portrait in the Moo… So tell me who ’tis like— The very Brow—the stooping eyes— A fog for—Say—Whose Sake?
The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful—
I hide myself within my flower, That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too - And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower,
XVII SHE rose to his requirement, drop… The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
837 How well I knew Her not Whom not to know has been A Bounty in prospective, now Next Door to mine the Pain.