#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
822 This Consciousness that is aware Of Neighbors and the Sun Will be the one aware of Death And that itself alone
25 She slept beneath a tree— Remembered but by me. I touched her Cradle mute— She recognized the foot—
91 So bashful when I spied her! So pretty—so ashamed! So hidden in her leaflets Lest anybody find—
1100 The last Night that She lived It was a Common Night Except the Dying—this to Us Made Nature different
305 The difference between Despair And Fear—is like the One Between the instant of a Wreck And when the Wreck has been—
I’m saying every day “If I should be a Queen, tomorrow… I’d do this way — And so I deck, a little, If it be, I wake a Bourbon,
The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. If nature will not tell the tale
619 Glee—The great storm is over— Four—have recovered the Land— Forty gone down together— Into the boiling Sand.
It sounded as if the Streets were… And then– the Streets stood stil… Eclipse - was all we could see at… And Awe - was all we could feel. By and by - the boldest stole out…
566 A Dying Tiger—moaned for Drink— I hunted all the Sand— I caught the Dripping of a Rock And bore it in my Hand—
41 I robbed the Woods— The trusting Woods. The unsuspecting Trees Brought out their Burs and mosses
763 He told a homely tale And spotted it with tears— Upon his infant face was set The Cicatrice of years—
116 I had some things that I called m… And God, that he called his, Till, recently a rival Claim Disturbed these amities.
I SHOULD have been too glad, I… Too lifted for the scant degree Of life’s penurious round; My little circuit would have shame… This new circumference, have blame…
562 Conjecturing a Climate Of unsuspended Suns— Adds poignancy to Winter— The Shivering Fancy turns