#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
XVIII READ, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid;
Your Riches—taught me—Poverty. Myself—a Millionaire In little Wealths, as Girls could… Till broad as Buenos Ayre— You drifted your Dominions—
859 A Doubt if it be Us Assists the staggering Mind In an extremer Anguish Until it footing find.
555 Trust in the Unexpected— By this—was William Kidd Persuaded of the Buried Gold— As One had testified—
522 Had I presumed to hope— The loss had been to Me A Value—for the Greatness’ Sake— As Giants—gone away—
382 For Death—or rather For the Things 'twould buy— This—put away Life’s Opportunity—
191 The Skies can’t keep their secret… They tell it to the Hills— The Hills just tell the Orchards— And they—the Daffodils!
577 If I may have it, when it’s dead, I’ll be contented—so— If just as soon as Breath is out It shall belong to me—
One need not be a chamber to be ha… One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. Far safer, of a midnight meeting
LXVII Presentment is that long shadow on… Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
If Nature smiles - the Mother mu… I’m sure, at many a whim Of Her eccentric Family - Is She so much to blame?
596 When I was small, a Woman died— Today—her Only Boy Went up from the Potomac— His face all Victory
582 Inconceivably solemn! Things go gay Pierce—by the very Press Of Imagery—
I went to heaven,— ‘T was a small town, Lit with a ruby, Lathed with down. Stiller than the fields
893 Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb— Or Dome of Worm— Or Porch of Gnome—