#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
491 While it is alive Until Death touches it While it and I lap one Air Dwell in one Blood
485 To make One’s Toilette—after Dea… Has made the Toilette cool Of only Taste we cared to please Is difficult, and still—
23 I had a guinea golden— I lost it in the sand— And tho’ the sum was simple And pounds were in the land—
LXXXII THERE’S a certain slant of ligh… On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
335 ’Tis not that Dying hurts us so— ’Tis Living—hurts us more— But Dying—is a different way— A Kind behind the Door—
Tie the strings to my life, my Lo… Then I am ready to go! Just a look at the horses— Rapid! That will do! Put me in on the firmest side,
774 It is a lonesome Glee— Yet sanctifies the Mind— With fair association— Afar upon the Wind
841 A Moth the hue of this Haunts Candles in Brazil. Nature’s Experience would make Our Reddest Second pale.
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
112 Where bells no more affright the m… Where scrabble never comes— Where very nimble Gentlemen Are forced to keep their rooms—
824 [first version] The Wind begun to knead the Grass… As Women do a Dough— He flung a Hand full at the Plain…
The nearest dream recedes, unreali… The heaven we chase Like the June bee Before the school-boy Invites the race;
982 No Other can reduce Our mortal Consequence Like the remembering it be nought A Period from hence
114 Good night, because we must, How intricate the dust! I would go, to know! Oh incognito!
Epigram THIS is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,— The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty.