#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
904 Had I not This, or This, I said, Appealing to Myself, In moment of prosperity— Inadequate—were Life—
486 I was the slightest in the House— I took the smallest Room— At night, my little Lamp, and Boo… And one Geranium—
363 I went to thank Her— But She Slept— Her Bed—a funneled Stone— With Nosegays at the Head and Fo…
250 I shall keep singing! Birds will pass me On their way to Yellower Climes— Each—with a Robin’s expectation—
One need not be a chamber to be ha… One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. Far safer, of a midnight meeting
Delight becomes pictorial When viewed through pain,— More fair, because impossible That any gain. The mountaln at a given distance
614 In falling Timbers buried— There breathed a Man— Outside—the spades—were plying— The Lungs—within—
382 For Death—or rather For the Things 'twould buy— This—put away Life’s Opportunity—
516 Beauty—be not caused—It Is— Chase it, and it ceases— Chase it not, and it abides— Overtake the Creases
In snow thou comest - Thou shalt go with the resuming gr… The sweet derision of the crow, And Glee’s advancing sound. In fear thou comest -
235 The Court is far away— No Umpire—have I— My Sovereign is offended— To gain his grace—I’d die!
The brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve, ‘T were easier for you To put the water back
369 She lay as if at play Her life had leaped away— Intending to return— But not so soon—
532 I tried to think a lonelier Thing Than any I had seen— Some Polar Expiation—An Omen in… Of Death’s tremendous nearness—
Of so divine a Loss We enter but the Gain, Indemnity for Loneliness That such a Bliss has been.