#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
660 ’Tis good—the looking back on Gri… To re-endure a Day— We thought the Mighty Funeral— Of All Conceived Joy—
I hide myself within my flower, That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too - And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower,
33 If recollecting were forgetting, Then I remember not. And if forgetting, recollecting, How near I had forgot.
434 To love thee Year by Year— May less appear Than sacrifice, and cease— However, dear,
392 Through the Dark Sod—as Educatio… The Lily passes sure— Feels her white foot—no trepidatio… Her faith—no fear—
203 He forgot—and I—remembered— ’Twas an everyday affair— Long ago as Christ and Peter— “Warmed them” at the “Temple fire…
The Face we choose to miss - Be it but for a Day As absent as a Hundred Years, When it has rode away.
XXVII BECAUSE I could not stop for D… He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Oursel… And Immortality.
CXXVIII I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm.
718 I meant to find Her when I came— Death—had the same design— But the Success—was His—it seems— And the Surrender—Mine—
LIX I TOOK my power in my hand And went against the world; ’T was not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold.
921 If it had no pencil Would it try mine— Worn—now—and dull—sweet, Writing much to thee.
LXXXIII This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond — Invisible, as Music — But positive, as Sound —
March is the Month of Expectation… The things we do not know - The Persons of prognostication Are coming now - We try to show becoming firmness -
1000 The Fingers of the Light Tapped soft upon the Town With “I am great and cannot wait So therefore let me in.”