#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
218 Is it true, dear Sue? Are there two? I shouldn’t like to come For fear of joggling Him!
865 He outstripped Time with but a Bo… He outstripped Stars and Sun And then, unjaded, challenged God In presence of the Throne.
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself,
925 Struck, was I, not yet by Lightni… Lightning—lets away Power to perceive His Process With Vitality.
March is the Month of Expectation… The things we do not know - The Persons of prognostication Are coming now - We try to show becoming firmness -
Not Sickness stains the Brave, Nor any Dart, Nor Doubt of Scene to come, But an adjourning Heart -
264 A Weight with Needles on the poun… To push, and pierce, besides— That if the Flesh resist the Heft… The puncture—coolly tries—
910 Experience is the Angled Road Preferred against the Mind By—Paradox—the Mind itself— Presuming it to lead
289 I know some lonely Houses off the… A Robber’d like the look of— Wooden barred, And Windows hanging low,
262 The lonesome for they know not Wh… The Eastern Exiles—be— Who strayed beyond the Amber line Some madder Holiday—
621 I asked no other thing— No other—was denied— I offered Being—for it— The Mighty Merchant sneered—
143 For every Bird a Nest— Wherefore in timid quest Some little Wren goes seeking rou… Wherefore when boughs are free—
How lonesome the Wind must feel N… When people have put out the Ligh… And everything that has an Inn Closes the shutter and goes in— How pompous the Wind must feel No…
’Twas such a little—little boat That toddled down the bay! ’Twas such a gallant—gallant sea That beckoned it away! ’Twas such a greedy, greedy wave
Presentiment is that long shadow o… Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.