#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
584 It ceased to hurt me, though so sl… I could not feel the Anguish go— But only knew by looking back— That something—had benumbed the T…
305 The difference between Despair And Fear—is like the One Between the instant of a Wreck And when the Wreck has been—
52 Whether my bark went down at sea— Whether she met with gales— Whether to isles enchanted She bent her docile sails—
517 He parts Himself—like Leaves— And then—He closes up— Then stands upon the Bonnet Of Any Buttercup—
420 You’ll know it—as you know ’tis N… By Glory— As you do the Sun— By Glory—
XV I know some lonely houses off the… A robber ’d like the look of,— Wooden barred, And windows hanging low,
190 He was weak, and I was strong—the… So He let me lead him in— I was weak, and He was strong the… So I let him lead me—Home.
I never hear the word 'escape’ Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation, A flying attitude. I never hear of prisons broad
859 A doubt if it be Us Assists the staggering Mind In an extremer Anguish Until it footing find.
74 A Lady red—amid the Hill Her annual secret keeps! A Lady white, within the Field In placid Lily sleeps!
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
384 No Rack can torture me— My Soul—at Liberty— Behind this mortal Bone There knits a bolder One—
751 My Worthiness is all my Doubt— His Merit—all my fear— Contrasting which, my quality Do lowlier—appear—
319 Of Bronze—and Blaze— The North—tonight— So adequate—it forms— So preconcerted with itself—
I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains,