#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
941 The Lady feeds Her little Bird At rarer intervals— The little Bird would not dissent But meekly recognize
A clock stopped—not the mantel’s Geneva’s farthest skill Can’t put the puppet bowing That just now dangled still. An awe came on the trinket!
XXII I GAVE myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life Was ratified this way.
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown - Who ponders this tremendous scene… This whole Experiment of Green -
514 Her smile was shaped like other sm… The Dimples ran along— And still it hurt you, as some Bi… Did hoist herself, to sing,
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading—treading—till it see… That Sense was breaking through— And when they all were seated,
No rack can torture me, My soul’s at liberty Behind this mortal bone There knits a bolder one You cannot prick with saw,
26 It’s all I have to bring today— This, and my heart beside— This, and my heart, and all the fi… And all the meadows wide—
The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful—
922 Those who have been in the Grave… Those who begin Today— Equally perish from our Practise— Death is the other way—
509 If anybody’s friend be dead It’s sharpest of the theme The thinking how they walked alive… At such and such a time—
375 The Angle of a Landscape— That every time I wake— Between my Curtain and the Wall Upon an ample Crack—
911 Too little way the House must lie From every Human Heart That holds in undisputed Lease A white inhabitant—
LXIII Ample make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair.
950 The Sunset stopped on Cottages Where Sunset hence must be For treason not of His, but Life’… Gone Westerly, Today—