#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
Part One: Life LII VICTORY comes late, And is held low to freezing lips Too rapt with frost
45 There’s something quieter than sle… Within this inner room! It wears a sprig upon its breast— And will not tell its name.
183 I’ve heard an Organ talk, sometim… In a Cathedral Aisle, And understood no word it said— Yet held my breath, the while—
159 A little bread—a crust—a crumb— A little trust—a demijohn— Can keep the soul alive— Not portly, mind! but breathing—wa…
VIII A wounded deer leaps highest, I ’ve heard the hunter tell; ’T is but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still.
8 There is a word Which bears a sword Can pierce an armed man— It hurls its barbed syllables
430 It would never be Common—more—I s… Difference—had begun— Many a bitterness—had been— But that old sort—was done—
Part One: Life LI IT tossed and tossed,— A little brig I knew,— O’ertook by blast,
You love the Lord—you cannot see— You write Him—every day— A little note—when you awake— And further in the Day. An Ample Letter—How you miss—
438 Forget! The lady with the Amulet Forget she wore it at her Heart Because she breathed against Was Treason twixt?
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet now I know how the heather lo… And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God,
29 If those I loved were lost The Crier’s voice would tell me— If those I loved were found The bells of Ghent would ring—
An Antiquated Tree Is cherished of the Crow Because that Junior Foliage is di… To venerable Birds Whose Corporation Coat
228 Blazing in Gold and quenching in… Leaping like Leopards to the Sky Then at the feet of the old Horiz… Laying her spotted Face to die
240 Ah, Moon—and Star! You are very far— But were no one Farther than you—