#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
446 I showed her Heights she never sa… “Would’st Climb,” I said? She said—"Not so"— “With me—” I said—With me?
143 For every Bird a Nest— Wherefore in timid quest Some little Wren goes seeking rou… Wherefore when boughs are free—
He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees, Prepares your brittle substance
809 Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity— Unable they that love—to die
XXXVII LOVE is anterior to life, Posterior to death, Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath.
The Snow that never drifts - The transient, fragrant snow That comes a single time a Year Is softly driving now - So thorough in the Tree
Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being’s road, Eternity by term. Our pace took sudden awe,
224 I've nothing else—to bring, You k… So I keep bringing These— Just as the Night keeps fetching… To our familiar eyes—
376 Of Course—I prayed— And did God Care? He cared as much as on the Air A Bird—had stamped her foot—
359 I gained it so— By Climbing slow— By Catching at the Twigs that gro… Between the Bliss—and me—
Like trains of cars on tracks of p… I hear the level bee: A jar across the flowers goes, Their velvet masonry Withstands until the sweet assault
When Memory is full Put on the perfect Lid - This Morning’s finest syllable Presumptuous Evening said -
84 Her breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a “Diver”— Her brow is fit for thrones But I have not a crest.
135 Water, is taught by thirst. Land—by the Oceans passed. Transport—by throe— Peace—by its battles told—
39 It did not surprise me— So I said—or thought— She will stir her pinions And the nest forgot,