#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
’Twas such a little—little boat That toddled down the bay! ’Twas such a gallant—gallant sea That beckoned it away! ’Twas such a greedy, greedy wave
358 If any sink, assure that this, now… Failed like Themselves—and consci… Grew by the Fact, and not the Und… How Weakness passed—or Force—aros…
XXII I GAVE myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life Was ratified this way.
860 Absence disembodies—so does Death Hiding individuals from the Earth Superposition helps, as well as lo… Tenderness decreases as we prove—
XLIV THE show is not the show, But they that go. Menagerie to me My neighbor be.
612 It would have starved a Gnat— To live so small as I— And yet I was a living Child— With Food’s necessity
I know a place where summer strive… With such a practised frost, She each year leads her daisies ba… Recording briefly, ‘Lost.’ But when the south wind stirs the…
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
99 New feet within my garden go— New fingers stir the sod— A Troubadour upon the Elm Betrays the solitude.
XIV SOME things that fly there be,— Birds, hours, the bumble-bee: Of these no elegy. Some things that stay there be,—
Not any sunny tone From any fervent zone Find entrance there - Better a grave of Balm Toward human nature’s home -
928 The Heart has narrow Banks It measures like the Sea In mighty—unremitting Bass And Blue Monotony
991 She sped as Petals of a Rose Offended by the Wind— A frail Aristocrat of Time Indemnity to find—
370 Heaven is so far of the Mind That were the Mind dissolved— The Site—of it—by Architect Could not again be proved—
256 If I’m lost—now That I was found— Shall still my transport be— That once—on me—those Jasper Gate…