#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
900 What did They do since I saw The… Were They industrious? So many questions to put Them Have I the eagerness
Some keep the Sabbath going to Ch… I keep it, staying at Home— With a Bobolink for a Chorister— And an Orchard, for a Dome— Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice…
62 “Sown in dishonor”! Ah! Indeed! May this “dishonor” be? If I were half so fine myself
The brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve, ‘T were easier for you To put the water back
492 Civilization—spurns—the Leopard! Was the Leopard—bold? Deserts—never rebuked her Satin— Ethiop—her Gold—
XIX PAIN has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not.
372 I know lives, I could miss Without a Misery— Others—whose instant’s wanting— Would be Eternity—
The earth has many keys, Where melody is not Is the unknown peninsula. Beauty is nature’s fact. But witness for her land,
After a hundred years Nobody knows the place,— Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace. Weeds triumphant ranged,
353 A happy lip—breaks sudden— It doesn’t state you how It contemplated—smiling— Just consummated—now—
183 I’ve heard an Organ talk, sometim… In a Cathedral Aisle, And understood no word it said— Yet held my breath, the while—
I started Early– Took my Dog – And visited the Sea - The Mermaids in the Basement Came out to look at me - And Frigates - in the Upper Floo…
LXVII Presentment is that long shadow on… Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
Part One: Life LII VICTORY comes late, And is held low to freezing lips Too rapt with frost
My life had stood—a Loaded Gun— In Corners—till a Day The Owner passed—identified— And carried Me away— And now We roam in Sovereign Woo…
