#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
479 She dealt her pretty words like B… How glittering they shone— And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone—
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
688 “Speech”—is a prank of Parliament… “Tears”—is a trick of the nerve— But the Heart with the heaviest f… Doesn't—always—move—
64 Some Rainbow—coming from the Fair… Some Vision of the World Cashmer… I confidently see! Or else a Peacock’s purple Train
LXXXV A LIGHT exists in spring Not present on the year At any other period. When March is scarcely here
The show is not the show, But they that go. Menagerie to me My neighbor be. Fair play—
636 The Way I read a Letter’s—this— ’Tis first—I lock the Door— And push it with my fingers—next— For transport it be sure—
218 Is it true, dear Sue? Are there two? I shouldn’t like to come For fear of joggling Him!
I cannot live with You— It would be Life— And Life is over there— Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps the Key to—
130 These are the days when Birds com… A very few—a Bird or two— To take a backward look. These are the days when skies resu…
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself,
415 Sunset at Night—is natural— But Sunset on the Dawn Reverses Nature—Master— So Midnight’s—due—at Noon.
639 My Portion is Defeat—today— A paler luck than Victory— Less Paeans—fewer Bells— The Drums don’t follow Me—with tu…
424 Removed from Accident of Loss By Accident of Gain Befalling not my simple Days— Myself had just to earn—
820 All Circumstances are the Frame In which His Face is set— All Latitudes exist for His Sufficient Continent—