#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
XXXVII For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
590 Did you ever stand in a Cavern’s… Widths out of the Sun— And look—and shudder, and block yo… And deem to be alone
411 The Color of the Grave is Green— The Outer Grave—I mean— You would not know it from the Fi… Except it own a Stone—
XVII SHE rose to his requirement, drop… The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
673 The Love a Life can show Below Is but a filament, I know, Of that diviner thing That faints upon the face of Noon…
XXXIX I MEANT to have but modest need… Such as content, and heaven; Within my income these could lie, And life and I keep even.
910 Experience is the Angled Road Preferred against the Mind By—Paradox—the Mind itself— Presuming it to lead
66 So from the mould Scarlet and Gold Many a Bulb will rise— Hidden away, cunningly, From saga…
I bet with every Wind that blew Till Nature in chagrin Employed a Fact to visit me And scuttle my Balloon -
I saw the wind within her I knew it blew for me '— But she must buy my shelter I asked Humility
82 Whose cheek is this? What rosy face Has lost a blush today? I found her—"pleiad"—in the woods
631 Ourselves were wed one summer—dear… Your Vision—was in June— And when Your little Lifetime fai… I wearied—too—of mine—
570 I could die—to know— ’Tis a trifling knowledge— News-Boys salute the Door— Carts—joggle by—
798 She staked her Feathers—Gained an… Debated—Rose again— This time—beyond the estimate Of Envy, or of Men—
Drowning is not so pitiful As the attempt to rise. Three times, 't is said, a sinking… Comes up to face the skies, And then declines forever
