#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself,
Of all the souls that stand create I have elected one. When sense from spirit files away, And subterfuge is done; When that which is and that which…
695 As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea— And that—a further—and the Three But a presumption be—
783 The Birds begun at Four o’clock— Their period for Dawn— A Music numerous as space— But neighboring as Noon—
The brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve, ‘T were easier for you To put the water back
473 I am ashamed’—I hide’— What right have I’—to be a Bride’… So late a Dowerless Girl’— Nowhere to hide my dazzled Face’—
817 Given in Marriage unto Thee Oh thou Celestial Host— Bride of the Father and the Son Bride of the Holy Ghost.
131 Besides the Autumn poets sing A few prosaic days A little this side of the snow And that side of the Haze—
403 The Winters are so short— I’m hardly justified In sending all the Birds away— And moving into Pod—
940 On that dear Frame the Years had… Yet precious as the House In which We first experienced Lig… The Witnessing, to Us—
835 Nature and God—I neither knew Yet Both so well knew me They startled, like Executors Of My identity.
A House upon the Height— That Wagon never reached— No Dead, were ever carried down— No Peddler’s Cart—approached— Whose Chimney never smoked—
A clock stopped—not the mantel’s Geneva’s farthest skill Can’t put the puppet bowing That just now dangled still. An awe came on the trinket!
186 What shall I do—it whimpers so— This little Hound within the Hear… All day and night with bark and st… And yet, it will not go—
The thought beneath so slight a fi… Is more distincly seen,— As laces just reveal the surge, Or mists the Apennine.
