#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
You love the Lord—you cannot see— You write Him—every day— A little note—when you awake— And further in the Day. An Ample Letter—How you miss—
Why – do they shut Me out of Heav… Did I sing – too loud? But – I can say a little “minor” Timid as a Bird! Wouldn’t the Angels try me –
749 All but Death, can be Adjusted— Dynasties repaired— Systems—settled in their Sockets— Citadels—dissolved—
133 As Children bid the Guest “Good… And then reluctant turn— My flowers raise their pretty lips… Then put their nightgowns on.
XIX PAIN has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not.
Elysium is as far as to The very nearest Room If in that Room a Friend await Felicity or Doom— What fortitude the Soul contains
His bill an auger is, His head, a cap and frill. He laboreth at every tree,— A worm his utmost goal.
768 When I hoped, I recollect Just the place I stood— At a Window facing West— Roughest Air—was good—
XX ARCTURUS is his other name,— I ’d rather call him star! It ’s so unkind of science To go and interfere!
821 Away from Home are some and I— An Emigrant to be In a Metropolis of Homes Is easy, possibly—
We like March, his shoes are purp… He is new and high; Makes he mud for dog and peddler, Makes he forest dry; Knows the adder’s tongue his comin…
CXXXVI I STEPPED from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea.
372 I know lives, I could miss Without a Misery— Others—whose instant’s wanting— Would be Eternity—
XXVIII I BRING an unaccustomed wine To lips long parching, next to min… And summon them to drink. Crackling with fever, they essay;
424 Removed from Accident of Loss By Accident of Gain Befalling not my simple Days— Myself had just to earn—