#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
887 We outgrow love, like other things And put it in the Drawer— Till it an Antique fashion shows— Like Costumes Grandsires wore.
886 These tested Our Horizon— Then disappeared As Birds before achieving A Latitude.
Love—is that later Thing than Dea… More previous—than Life— Confirms it at its entrance—And Usurps it—of itself— Tastes Death—the first—to hand th…
IX THE heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering;
301 I reason, Earth is short— And Anguish—absolute— And many hurt, But, what of that?
802 Time feels so vast that were it no… For an Eternity— I fear me this Circumference Engross my Finity—
635 I think the longest Hour of all Is when the Cars have come— And we are waiting for the Coach— It seems as though the Time
885 Our little Kinsmen’—after Rain In plenty may be seen, A Pink and Pulpy multitude The tepid Ground upon.
453 Love — thou art high — I cannot climb thee — But, were it Two — Who knows but we —
Years I had been from home, And now, before the door I dared not open, lest a face I never saw before Stare vacant into mine
My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun— In Corners—till a Day The Owner passed—identified— And carried Me away— And now We roam in Sovereign Woo…
725 Where Thou art—that—is Home— Cashmere—or Calvary—the same— Degree—or Shame— I scarce esteem Location’s Name—
The grave my little cottage is, Where 'Keeping house’ for thee I make my parlor orderly And lay the marble tea. For two divided, briefly,
568 We learned the Whole of Love— The Alphabet—the Words— A Chapter—then the mighty Book— Then—Revelation closed—
367 Over and over, like a Tune— The Recollection plays— Drums off the Phantom Battlements Cornets of Paradise—
