#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
Because I could not stop for Deat… He kindly stopped for me– The Carriage held but just Oursel… And Immortality. We slowly drove– He knew no haste
Death leaves Us homesick, who beh… Except that it is gone Are ignorant of its Concern As if it were not born. Through all their former Places,…
632 The Brain—is wider than the Sky— For—put them side by side— The one the other will contain With ease—and You—beside—
859 A doubt if it be Us Assists the staggering Mind In an extremer Anguish Until it footing find.
388 Take your Heaven further on— This—to Heaven divine Has gone— Had You earlier blundered in Possibly, e’en You had seen
667 Bloom upon the Mountain—stated— Blameless of a Name— Efflorescence of a Sunset— Reproduced—the same—
The earth has many keys, Where melody is not Is the unknown peninsula. Beauty is nature’s fact. But witness for her land,
617 Don’t put up my Thread and Needle… I’ll begin to Sew When the Birds begin to whistle— Better Stitches—so—
853 When One has given up One’s life The parting with the rest Feels easy, as when Day lets go Entirely the West
338 I know that He exists. Somewhere—in Silence— He has hid his rare life From our gross eyes.
199 I’m “wife”'—I’ve finished that’— That other state’— I’m Czar’—I’m “Woman” now’— It’s safer so’—
Delight becomes pictorial When viewed through pain,— More fair, because impossible That any gain. The mountaln at a given distance
Air has no Residence, no Neighbor… No Ear, no Door, No Apprehension of Another Oh, Happy Air! Ethereal Guest at e’en an Outcast…
It struck me every day The lightning was as new As if the cloud that instant slit And let the fire through. It burned me in the night,
942 Snow beneath whose chilly softness Some that never lay Make their first Repose this Wint… I admonish Thee