#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
She sweeps with many-colored broom… And leaves the shreds behind; Oh, housewife in the evening west, Come back, and dust the pond! You dropped a purple ravelling in,
616 I rose—because He sank— I thought it would be opposite— But when his power dropped— My Soul grew straight.
208 The Rose did caper on her cheek— Her Bodice rose and fell— Her pretty speech—like drunken men… Did stagger pitiful—
474 They put Us far apart— As separate as Sea And Her unsown Peninsula— We signified “These see”—
327 Before I got my eye put out I liked as well to see— As other Creatures, that have Eye… And know no other way—
These—saw Visions— Latch them softly— These—held Dimples— Smooth them slow— This—addressed departing accents—
Said Death to Passion ‘Give of thine an Acre unto me.’ Said Passion, through contracting… ‘A Thousand Times Thee Nay.’ Bore Death from Passion
226 Should you but fail at—Sea— In sight of me— Or doomed lie— Next Sun—to die—
33 If recollecting were forgetting, Then I remember not. And if forgetting, recollecting, How near I had forgot.
Growth of Man—like Growth of Nat… Gravitates within— Atmosphere, and Sun endorse it— Bit it stir—alone— Each—its difficult Ideal
To the bright east she flies, Brothers of Paradise Remit her home, Without a change of wings, Or Love’s convenient things,
An everywhere of silver, With ropes of sand To keep it from effacing The track called land.
There is another sky, Ever serene and fair, And there is another sunshine, Though it be darkness there; Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Going to him! Happy letter! Tell… Tell him the page I didn’t write; Tell him I only said the syntax, And left the verb and the pronoun… Tell him just how the fingers hurr…
260 Read—Sweet—how others—strove— Till we—are stouter— What they—renounced— Till we—are less afraid—