#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
394 ’Twas Love’—not me’— Oh punish’—pray’— The Real one died for Thee’— Just Him’—not me’—
75 She died at play, Gambolled away Her lease of spotted hours, Then sank as gaily as a Turn
782 There is an arid Pleasure— As different from Joy— As Frost is different from Dew— Like element—are they—
Before you thought of spring, Except as a surmise, You see, God bless his suddenness… A fellow in the skies Of independent hues,
616 I rose—because He sank— I thought it would be opposite— But when his power dropped— My Soul grew straight.
548 Death is potential to that Man Who dies—and to his friend— Beyond that—unconspicuous To Anyone but God—
Elysium is as far as to The very nearest Room If in that Room a Friend await Felicity or Doom— What fortitude the Soul contains
34 Garland for Queens, may be— Laurels—for rare degree Of soul or sword. Ah—but remembering me—
Our lives are Swiss— So still—so Cool— Till some odd afternoon The Alps neglect their Curtains And we look farther on!
A feather from the Whippoorwill That everlasting—sings! Whose galleries—are Sunrise— Whose Opera—the Springs— Whose Emerald Nest the Ages spin
130 These are the days when Birds com… A very few—a Bird or two— To take a backward look. These are the days when skies resu…
I never hear the word 'escape’ Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation, A flying attitude. I never hear of prisons broad
Pain—has an Element of Blank— It cannot recollect When it begun—or if there were A time when it was not— It has no Future—but itself—
14 One Sister have I in our house, And one, a hedge away. There’s only one recorded, But both belong to me.
XV I know some lonely houses off the… A robber ’d like the look of,— Wooden barred, And windows hanging low,