#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
145 This heart that broke so long— These feet that never flagged— This faith that watched for star i… Give gently to the dead—
Part One: Life LI IT tossed and tossed,— A little brig I knew,— O’ertook by blast,
691 Would you like summer? Taste of o… Spices? Buy here! Ill! We have berries, for the par… Weary! Furloughs of down!
Whether they have forgotten Or are forgetting now Or never remembered - Safer not to know - Miseries of conjecture
232 The Sun—just touched the Morning— The Morning—Happy thing— Supposed that He had come to dwel… And Life would all be Spring!
366 Although I put away his life— An Ornament too grand For Forehead low as mine, to wear… This might have been the Hand
38 By such and such an offering To Mr. So and So, The web of live woven— So martyrs albums show!
LVIII PORTRAITS are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading—treading—till it see… That Sense was breaking through— And when they all were seated,
879 Each Second is the last Perhaps, recalls the Man Just measuring unconsciousness The Sea and Spar between.
169 In Ebon Box, when years have flow… To reverently peer, Wiping away the velvet dust Summers have sprinkled there!
852 Apology for Her Be rendered by the Bee— Herself, without a Parliament Apology for Me.
16 I would distil a cup, And bear to all my friends, Drinking to her no more astir, By beck, or burn, or moor!
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.
50 I haven’t told my garden yet— Lest that should conquer me. I haven’t quite the strength now To break it to the Bee—