#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
His Heart was darker than the sta… For that there is a morn But in this black Receptacle Can be no Bode of Dawn
402 I pay—in Satin Cash— You did not state—your price— A Petal, for a Paragraph It near as I can guess—
XLIII I LIKE to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step
412 I read my sentence—steadily— Reviewed it with my eyes, To see that I made no mistake In its extremest clause—
GLEE! the great storm is over! Four have recovered the land; Forty gone down together Into the boiling sand. Ring, for the scant salvation!
370 Heaven is so far of the Mind That were the Mind dissolved— The Site—of it—by Architect Could not again be proved—
183 I’ve heard an Organ talk, sometim… In a Cathedral Aisle, And understood no word it said— Yet held my breath, the while—
917 Love—is anterior to Life— Posterior—to Death— Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth—
851 When the Astronomer stops seeking For his Pleiad’s Face— When the lone British Lady Forsakes the Arctic Race
‘T was just this time last year I… I know I heard the corn, When I was carried by the farms,— It had the tassels on. I thought how yellow it would look
782 There is an arid Pleasure— As different from Joy— As Frost is different from Dew— Like element—are they—
165 A Wounded Deer—leaps highest— I’ve heard the Hunter tell— ’Tis but the Ecstasy of death— And then the Brake is still!
Exhilaration is the Breeze That lifts us from the Ground And leaves us in another place Whose statement is not found - Returns us not, but after time
521 Endow the Living—with the Tears— You squander on the Dead, And They were Men and Women—now, Around Your Fireside—
120 If this is “fading” Oh let me immediately “fade”! If this is “dying” Bury me, in such a shroud of red!