#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
18 The Gentian weaves her fringes— The Maple’s loom is red— My departing blossoms Obviate parade.
134 Perhaps you’d like to buy a flower… But I could never sell— If you would like to borrow, Until the Daffodil
LXXIX I YEARS had been from home, And now, before the door, I dared not open, lest a face I never saw before
XXVIII I BRING an unaccustomed wine To lips long parching, next to min… And summon them to drink. Crackling with fever, they essay;
28 So has a Daisy vanished From the fields today— So tiptoed many a slipper To Paradise away—
319 Of Bronze—and Blaze— The North—tonight— So adequate—it forms— So preconcerted with itself—
614 In falling Timbers buried— There breathed a Man— Outside—the spades—were plying— The Lungs—within—
887 We outgrow love, like other things And put it in the Drawer— Till it an Antique fashion shows— Like Costumes Grandsires wore.
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,
642 Me from Myself — to banish — Had I Art — Impregnable my Fortress Unto All Heart —
I know a place where summer strive… With such a practised frost, She each year leads her daisies ba… Recording briefly, ‘Lost.’ But when the south wind stirs the…
150 She died—this was the way she died… And when her breath was done Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun—
178 I cautious, scanned my little life… I winnowed what would fade From what would last till Heads l… Should be a-dreaming laid.
689 The Zeroes—taught us—Phosphorous— We learned to like the Fire By playing Glaciers—when a Boy— And Tinder—guessed—by power
902 The first Day that I was a Life I recollect it—How still— That last Day that I was a Life I recollect it—as well—