#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
877 Each Scar I’ll keep for Him Instead I’ll say of Gem In His long Absence worn A Costlier one
752 So the Eyes accost—and sunder In an Audience— Stamped—occasionally—forever— So may Countenance
LXXXVI A LADY red upon the hill Her annual secret keeps; A lady white within the field In placid lily sleeps!
A Wind that rose Though not a Leaf In any Forest stirred But with itself did cold engage Beyond the Realm of Bird -
A still – Volcano – Life – That flickered in the night – When it was dark enough to do Without erasing sight – A quiet – Earthquake Style –
289 I know some lonely Houses off the… A Robber’d like the look of— Wooden barred, And Windows hanging low,
459 A Tooth upon Our Peace The Peace cannot deface— Then Wherefore be the Tooth? To vitalize the Grace—
243 I’ve known a Heaven, like a Tent— To wrap its shining Yards— Pluck up its stakes, and disappear… Without the sound of Boards
75 She died at play, Gambolled away Her lease of spotted hours, Then sank as gaily as a Turn
933 Two Travellers perishing in Snow The Forests as they froze Together heard them strengthening Each other with the words
539 The Province of the Saved Should be the Art—To save— Through Skill obtained in Themsel… The Science of the Grave
544 The Martyr Poets—did not tell— But wrought their Pang in syllabl… That when their mortal name be num… Their mortal fate—encourage Some—
296 One Year ago—jots what? God—spell the word! I—can’t— Was’t Grace? Not that— Was’t Glory? That—will do—
343 My Reward for Being, was This. My premium—My Bliss— An Admiralty, less— A Sceptre—penniless—
Each life converges to some centre Expressed or still; Exists in every human nature A goal, Admitted scarcely to itself, it ma…