#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
693 Shells from the Coast mistaking— I cherished them for All— Happening in After Ages To entertain a Pearl—
480 “Why do I love” You, Sir? Because— The Wind does not require the Gra… To answer—Wherefore when He pass
59 A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard—
A drop fell on the apple tree, Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went out to help the brook,
The wind begun to rock the grass With threatening tunes and low,— He flung a menace at the earth, A menace at the sky. The leaves unhooked themselves fro…
765 You constituted Time— I deemed Eternity A Revelation of Yourself— ’Twas therefore Deity
417 Is it dead—Find it— Out of sound—Out of sight— “Happy”? Which is wiser— You, or the Wind?
To see her is a Picture— To hear her is a Tune— To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June— To know her not—Affliction—
972 Unfulfilled to Observation— Incomplete—to Eye— But to Faith—a Revolution In Locality—
XXII I GAVE myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life Was ratified this way.
250 I shall keep singing! Birds will pass me On their way to Yellower Climes— Each—with a Robin’s expectation—
XIX I STARTED early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me,
XXXIV WHO never lost, are unprepared A coronet to find; Who never thirsted, flagons And cooling tamarind.
253 You see I cannot see—your lifetim… I must guess— How many times it ache for me—toda… How many times for my far sake
179 If I could bribe them by a Rose I’d bring them every flower that g… From Amherst to Cashmere! I would not stop for night, or sto…