#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
185 “Faith” is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see— But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.
949 Under the Light, yet under, Under the Grass and the Dirt, Under the Beetle’s Cellar Under the Clover’s Root,
I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next
XCIX THERE is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry.
808 So set its Sun in Thee What Day be dark to me— What Distance—far— So I the Ships may see
244 It is easy to work when the soul i… But when the soul is in pain— The hearing him put his playthings… Makes work difficult—then—
A still – Volcano – Life – That flickered in the night – When it was dark enough to do Without erasing sight – A quiet – Earthquake Style –
I watched the Moon around the Hou… Until upon a Pane— She stopped—a Traveller’s privile… And there upon I gazed—as at a stranger—
822 This Consciousness that is aware Of Neighbors and the Sun Will be the one aware of Death And that itself alone
They say that ‘time assuages,’— Time never did assuage; An actual suffering strengthens, As sinews do, with age. Time is a test of trouble,
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—
491 While it is alive Until Death touches it While it and I lap one Air Dwell in one Blood
779 The Service without Hope— Is tenderest, I think— Because ’tis unsustained By stint—Rewarded Work—
509 If anybody’s friend be dead It’s sharpest of the theme The thinking how they walked alive… At such and such a time—
XXXVII For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.