#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
699 The Judge is like the Owl— I’ve heard my Father tell— And Owls do build in Oaks— So here’s an Amber Sill—
The Beggar at the Door for Fame Were easily supplied But Bread is that Diviner thing Disclosed to be denied
457 Sweet—safe—Houses—Glad—gay—House… Sealed so stately tight— Lids of Steel—on Lids of Marble— Locking Bare feet out—
788 Joy to have merited the Pain— To merit the Release— Joy to have perished every step— To Compass Paradise—
428 Taking up the fair Ideal, Just to cast her down When a fracture—we discover— Or a splintered Crown—
877 Each Scar I’ll keep for Him Instead I’ll say of Gem In His long Absence worn A Costlier one
853 When One has given up One’s life The parting with the rest Feels easy, as when Day lets go Entirely the West
391 A Visitor in Marl— Who influences Flowers— Till they are orderly as Busts— And Elegant—as Glass—
222 When Katie walks, this simple pai… When Katie runs unwearied they fo… When Katie kneels, their loving h… Ah! Katie! Smile at Fortune, wit…
804 No Notice gave She, but a Change… No Message, but a Sigh— For Whom, the Time did not suffic… That She should specify.
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple Host
XXXVII For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
127 “Houses”—so the Wise Men tell me— “Mansions”! Mansions must be warm… Mansions cannot let the tears in, Mansions must exclude the storm!
183 I’ve heard an Organ talk, sometim… In a Cathedral Aisle, And understood no word it said— Yet held my breath, the while—
385 Smiling back from Coronation May be Luxury— On the Heads that started with us… Being’s Peasantry—