#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
38 By such and such an offering To Mr. So and So, The web of live woven— So martyrs albums show!
Water makes many Beds For those averse to sleep - Its awful chamber open stands - Its Curtains blandly sweep - Abhorrent is the Rest
467 We do not play on Graves— Because there isn’t Room— Besides—it isn’t even—it slants And People come—
471 A Night—there lay the Days betwee… The Day that was Before— And Day that was Behind—were one— And now—'twas Night—was here—
It’s thoughts—and just One Heart— And Old Sunshine—about— Make frugal—Ones—Content— And two or three—for Company— Upon a Holiday—
349 I had the Glory—that will do— An Honor, Thought can turn her to When lesser Fames invite— With one long “Nay”—
I saw the wind within her I knew it blew for me '— But she must buy my shelter I asked Humility
421 A Charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld— The Lady dare not lift her Veil For fear it be dispelled—
861 Split the Lark—and you’ll find th… Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled… Scantilly dealt to the Summer Mor… Saved for your Ear when Lutes be…
334 All the letters I can write Are not fair as this— Syllables of Velvet— Sentences of Plush,
178 I cautious, scanned my little life… I winnowed what would fade From what would last till Heads l… Should be a-dreaming laid.
A Counterfeit– a Plated Person… I would not be - Whatever strata of Iniquity My Nature underlie - Truth is good Health - and Safet…
672 The Future—never spoke— Nor will He—like the Dumb— Reveal by sign—a syllable Of His Profound To Come—
767 To offer brave assistance To Lives that stand alone— When One has failed to stop them— Is Human—but Divine
XXXVII For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.