#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
366 Although I put away his life— An Ornament too grand For Forehead low as mine, to wear… This might have been the Hand
All men for Honor hardest work But are not known to earn - Paid after they have ceased to wor… In Infamy or Urn -
430 It would never be Common—more—I s… Difference—had begun— Many a bitterness—had been— But that old sort—was done—
56 If I should cease to bring a Rose Upon a festal day, ‘Twill be because beyond the Rose I have been called away—
17 Baffled for just a day or two— Embarrassed—not afraid— Encounter in my garden An unexpected Maid.
God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me; I dare not eat it, though I starv… My poignant luxury To own it, touch it, prove the fea…
89 Some things that fly there be— Birds—Hours—the Bumblebee— Of these no Elegy. Some things that stay there be—
541 Some such Butterfly be seen On Brazilian Pampas— Just at noon—no later—Sweet— Then—the License closes—
562 Conjecturing a Climate Of unsuspended Suns— Adds poignancy to Winter— The Shivering Fancy turns
It was not death, for I stood up, And all the dead lie down; It was not night, for all the bell… Put out their tongues, for noon. It was not frost, for on my flesh
I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains,
90 Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered thro’ the village—
918 Only a Shrine, but Mine— I made the Taper shine— Madonna dim, to whom all Feet may… Regard a Nun—
820 All Circumstances are the Frame In which His Face is set— All Latitudes exist for His Sufficient Continent—
LV I envy seas whereon he rides, I envy spokes of wheels Of chariots that him convey, I envy speechless hills