#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
724 It’s easy to invent a Life— God does it—every Day— Creation—but the Gambol Of His Authority—
LXVI WHEN I hoped I feared, Since I hoped I dared; Everywhere alone As a church remain;
There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take
5 I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing— The spring decoys. And as the summer nears—
796 Who Giants know, with lesser Men Are incomplete, and shy— For Greatness, that is ill at eas… In minor Company—
I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was la… In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed…
XLIX A POOR torn heart, a tattered he… That sat it down to rest, Nor noticed that the ebbing day Flowed silver to the west,
928 The Heart has narrow Banks It measures like the Sea In mighty—unremitting Bass And Blue Monotony
To see her is a Picture— To hear her is a Tune— To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June— To know her not—Affliction—
305 The difference between Despair And Fear—is like the One Between the instant of a Wreck And when the Wreck has been—
175 I have never seen “Volcanoes”— But, when Travellers tell How those old—phlegmatic mountains Usually so still—
An Antiquated Tree Is cherished of the Crow Because that Junior Foliage is di… To venerable Birds Whose Corporation Coat
221 It can’t be “Summer”! That—got through! It’s early—yet—for “Spring”! There’s that long town of White—t…
The Butterfly in honored Dust Assuredly will lie But none will pass the Catacomb So chastened as the Fly -
488 Myself was formed’—a Carpenter’— An unpretending time My Plane’—and I, together wrought Before a Builder came’—
