#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
To mend each tattered Faith There is a needle fair Though no appearance indicate ’Tis threaded in the Air And though it do not wear
631 Ourselves were wed one summer—dear… Your Vision—was in June— And when Your little Lifetime fai… I wearied—too—of mine—
402 I pay—in Satin Cash— You did not state—your price— A Petal, for a Paragraph It near as I can guess—
448 This was a Poet—It is That Distills amazing sense From ordinary Meanings— And Attar so immense
260 Read—Sweet—how others—strove— Till we—are stouter— What they—renounced— Till we—are less afraid—
338 I know that He exists. Somewhere—in Silence— He has hid his rare life From our gross eyes.
656 The name—of it—is “Autumn”— The hue—of it—is Blood— An Artery—upon the Hill— A Vein—along the Road—
858 This Chasm, Sweet, upon my life I mention it to you, When Sunrise through a fissure dr… The Day must follow too.
A toad can die of light! Death is the common right Of toads and men,— Of earl and midge The privilege.
90 Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered thro’ the village—
XIV SOME things that fly there be,— Birds, hours, the bumble-bee: Of these no elegy. Some things that stay there be,—
865 He outstripped Time with but a Bo… He outstripped Stars and Sun And then, unjaded, challenged God In presence of the Throne.
1763 Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing.
THE LARGEST fire ever known Occurs each afternoon, Discovered is without surprise, Proceeds without concern: Consumes, and no report to men,
‘Faithful to the end’ Amended From the Heavenly Clause - Constancy with a Proviso Constancy abhors - ‘Crowns of Life’ are servile Priz…