#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
586 We talked as Girls do— Fond, and late— We speculated fair, on every subje… Of ours, none affair—
767 To offer brave assistance To Lives that stand alone— When One has failed to stop them— Is Human—but Divine
722 Sweet Mountains—Ye tell me no lie… Never deny Me—Never fly— Those same unvarying Eyes Turn on Me—when I fail—or feign,
865 He outstripped Time with but a Bo… He outstripped Stars and Sun And then, unjaded, challenged God In presence of the Throne.
972 Unfulfilled to Observation— Incomplete—to Eye— But to Faith—a Revolution In Locality—
Declaiming Waters none may dread… But Waters that are still Are so for that most fatal cause In Nature– they are full –
A narrow fellow in the grass Occasionally rides; You may have met him,—did you not, His notice sudden is. The grass divides as with a comb,
662 Embarrassment of one another And God Is Revelation’s limit, Aloud
442 God made a little Gentian— It tried—to be a Rose— And failed—and all the Summer lau… But just before the Snows
598 Three times—we parted—Breath—and… Three times—He would not go— But strove to stir the lifeless F… The Waters—strove to stay.
The grave my little cottage is, Where 'Keeping house’ for thee I make my parlor orderly And lay the marble tea. For two divided, briefly,
878 The Sun is gay or stark According to our Deed. If Merry, He is merrier— If eager for the Dead
64 Some Rainbow—coming from the Fair… Some Vision of the World Cashmer… I confidently see! Or else a Peacock’s purple Train
Part One: Life LIV EXPERIMENT to me Is every one I meet. If it contain a kernel?
228 Blazing in Gold and quenching in… Leaping like Leopards to the Sky Then at the feet of the old Horiz… Laying her spotted Face to die