#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
170 Portraits are to daily faces As an Evening West, To a fine, pedantic sunshine— In a satin Vest!
614 In falling Timbers buried— There breathed a Man— Outside—the spades—were plying— The Lungs—within—
The Face we choose to miss - Be it but for a Day As absent as a Hundred Years, When it has rode away.
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes— I wonder if It weighs like Mine— Or has an Easier size. I wonder if They bore it long—
493 The World—stands—solemner—to me— Since I was wed—to Him— A modesty befits the soul That bears another’s—name—
The Wind took up the Northern Th… And piled them in the south - Then gave the East unto the West And opening his mouth The four Divisions of the Earth
780 The Truth—is stirless— Other force—may be presumed to mov… This—then—is best for confidence— When oldest Cedars swerve—
912 Peace is a fiction of our Faith— The Bells a Winter Night Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound That never did alight.
323 As if I asked a common Alms, And in my wondering hand A Stranger pressed a Kingdom, And I, bewildered, stand—
XLVI A THOUGHT went up my mind to—d… That I have had before, But did not finish,—some way back, I could not fix the year,
253 You see I cannot see—your lifetim… I must guess— How many times it ache for me—toda… How many times for my far sake
563 I could not prove the Years had f… Yet confident they run Am I, from symptoms that are past And Series that are done—
209 With thee, in the Desert— With thee in the thirst— With thee in the Tamarind wood— Leopard breathes—at last!
IX THE heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering;
962 Midsummer, was it, when They died… A full, and perfect time— The Summer closed upon itself In Consummated Bloom—