#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
893 Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb— Or Dome of Worm— Or Porch of Gnome—
If Nature smiles - the Mother mu… I’m sure, at many a whim Of Her eccentric Family - Is She so much to blame?
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
517 He parts Himself—like Leaves— And then—He closes up— Then stands upon the Bonnet Of Any Buttercup—
414 ’Twas like a Maelstrom, with a no… That nearer, every Day, Kept narrowing its boiling Wheel Until the Agony
16 I would distil a cup, And bear to all my friends, Drinking to her no more astir, By beck, or burn, or moor!
221 It can’t be “Summer”! That—got through! It’s early—yet—for “Spring”! There’s that long town of White—t…
54 If I should die, And you should live— And time should gurgle on— And morn should beam—
694 The Heaven vests for Each In that small Deity It craved the grace to worship Some bashful Summer’s Day—
428 Taking up the fair Ideal, Just to cast her down When a fracture—we discover— Or a splintered Crown—
222 When Katie walks, this simple pai… When Katie runs unwearied they fo… When Katie kneels, their loving h… Ah! Katie! Smile at Fortune, wit…
The Butterfly upon the Sky, That doesn’t know its Name And hasn’t any tax to pay And hasn’t any Home Is just as high as you and I,
The dying need but little, dear,— A glass of water’s all, A flower’s unobtrusive face To punctuate the wall, A fan, perhaps, a friend’s regret,
Volcanoes be in Sicily And South America I judge from my Geography - Volcanos nearer here A Lava step at any time
XV I know some lonely houses off the… A robber ’d like the look of,— Wooden barred, And windows hanging low,