#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
IF I can stop one heart from brea… I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching… Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin
732 She rose to His Requirement—dropt The Playthings of Her Life To take the honorable Work Of Woman, and of Wife—
311 It sifts from Leaden Sieves— It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool The Wrinkles of the Road—
257 Delight is as the flight— Or in the Ratio of it, As the Schools would say— The Rainbow’s way—
XXXIV WHO never lost, are unprepared A coronet to find; Who never thirsted, flagons And cooling tamarind.
Spring comes on the World - I sight the Aprils - Hueless to me until thou come As, till the Bee Blossoms stand negative,
I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me. And frigates in the upper floor
632 The Brain—is wider than the Sky— For—put them side by side— The one the other will contain With ease—and You—beside—
10 My wheel is in the dark! I cannot see a spoke Yet know its dripping feet Go round and round.
Like trains of cars on tracks of p… I hear the level bee: A jar across the flowers goes, Their velvet masonry Withstands until the sweet assault
FATE slew him, but he did not dr… She felled’—he did not fall’— Impaled him on her fiercest stakes… He neutralized them all. She stung him, sapped his firm adv…
269 Bound—a trouble— And lives can bear it! Limit—how deep a bleeding go! So—many—drops—of vital scarlet—
474 They put Us far apart— As separate as Sea And Her unsown Peninsula— We signified “These see”—
Whether they have forgotten Or are forgetting now Or never remembered - Safer not to know - Miseries of conjecture
424 Removed from Accident of Loss By Accident of Gain Befalling not my simple Days— Myself had just to earn—