#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,- The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty Her message is committed
How Human Nature dotes On what it can’t detect. The moment that a Plot is plumbed Prospective is extinct - Prospective is the friend
91 So bashful when I spied her! So pretty—so ashamed! So hidden in her leaflets Lest anybody find—
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown - Who ponders this tremendous scene… This whole Experiment of Green -
445 ’Twas just this time, last year,… I know I heard the Corn, When I was carried by the Farms— It had the Tassels on—
LXXIX I YEARS had been from home, And now, before the door, I dared not open, lest a face I never saw before
69 Low at my problem bending, Another problem comes— Larger than mine—Serener— Involving statelier sums.
I have no life but this, To lead it here; Nor any death, but lest Dispelled from there; Nor tie to earths to come,
20 Distrustful of the Gentian— And just to turn away, The fluttering of her fringes Child my perfidy—
Proud of my broken heart, since th… Proud of the pain, I did not feel… Proud of my night, since thou, wit… Not to partake thy passion, –my hu… Thou can’st not boast, like Jesus…
492 Civilization—spurns—the Leopard! Was the Leopard—bold? Deserts—never rebuked her Satin— Ethiop—her Gold—
55 By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted— Which blossom in the dark.
XXXIII DARE you see a soul at the white… Then crouch within the door. Red is the fire’s common tint; But when the vivid ore
To die—takes just a little while— They say it doesn’t hurt— It’s only fainter—by degrees— And then—it’s out of sight— A darker Ribbon—for a Day—
The thought beneath so slight a fi… Is more distincly seen,— As laces just reveal the surge, Or mists the Apennine.