#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate Whose table once a Guest but not The second time is set.
1763 Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing.
857 Uncertain lease—develops lustre On Time Uncertain Grasp, appreciation Of Sum—
146 On such a night, or such a night, Would anybody care If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its chair—
311 It sifts from Leaden Sieves— It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool The Wrinkles of the Road—
329 So glad we are—a Stranger’d deem ’Twas sorry, that we were— For where the Holiday should be There publishes a Tear—
Yesterday is History, ’Tis so far away - Yesterday is Poetry - ’Tis Philosophy - Yesterday is mystery -
528 Mine—by the Right of the White E… Mine—by the Royal Seal! Mine—by the sign in the Scarlet p… Bars—cannot conceal!
199 I’m “wife”'—I’ve finished that’— That other state’— I’m Czar’—I’m “Woman” now’— It’s safer so’—
896 Of Silken Speech and Specious Sh… A Traitor is the Bee His service to the newest Grace Present continually
181 I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? You’ll know it by the Row of Star… Around its forehead bound.
273 He put the Belt around my life I heard the Buckle snap— And turned away, imperial, My Lifetime folding up—
910 Experience is the Angled Road Preferred against the Mind By—Paradox—the Mind itself— Presuming it to lead
959 A loss of something ever felt I— The first that I could recollect Bereft I was—of what I knew not Too young that any should suspect
469 The Red—Blaze—is the Morning— The Violet—is Noon— The Yellow—Day—is falling— And after that—is none—