#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
348 I would not paint—a picture— I’d rather be the One It’s bright impossibility To dwell—delicious—on—
I dwell in Possibility – A fairer House than Prose – More numerous of Windows – Superior – for Doors – Of Chambers as the Cedars –
702 A first Mute Coming— In the Stranger’s House— A first fair Going— When the Bells rejoice—
Witchcraft has not a Pedigree ’Tis early as our Breath And mourners meet it going out The moment of our death—
68 Ambition cannot find him. Affection doesn’t know How many leagues of nowhere Lie between them now.
52 Whether my bark went down at sea— Whether she met with gales— Whether to isles enchanted She bent her docile sails—
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—
198 An awful Tempest mashed the air— The clouds were gaunt, and few— A Black—as of a Spectre’s Cloak Hid Heaven and Earth from view.
938 Fairer through Fading—as the Day Into the Darkness dips away— Half Her Complexion of the Sun— Hindering—Haunting—Perishing—
236 If He dissolve – then – there is… Eclipse – at Midnight – It was dark – before – Sunset – at Easter –
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ectasty. For each beloved hour
942 Snow beneath whose chilly softness Some that never lay Make their first Repose this Wint… I admonish Thee
848 Just as He spoke it from his Hand… This Edifice remain— A Turret more, a Turret less Dishonor his Design—
956 What shall I do when the Summer t… What, when the Rose is ripe— What when the Eggs fly off in Mus… From the Maple Keep?
410 The first Day’s Night had come— And grateful that a thing So terrible—had been endured— I told my Soul to sing—