#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
13 Sleep is supposed to be By souls of sanity The shutting of the eye. Sleep is the station grand
903 I hide myself within my flower, That fading from your Vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me— Almost a loneliness.
126 To fight aloud, is very brave— But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Woe—
145 This heart that broke so long— These feet that never flagged— This faith that watched for star i… Give gently to the dead—
464 The power to be true to You, Until upon my face The Judgment push his Picture— Presumptuous of Your Place—
CXXXVI I STEPPED from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea.
An everywhere of silver, With ropes of sand To keep it from effacing The track called land.
541 Some such Butterfly be seen On Brazilian Pampas— Just at noon—no later—Sweet— Then—the License closes—
770 I lived on Dread— To Those who know The Stimulus there is In Danger—Other impetus
Silence is all we dread. There’s Ransom in a Voice - But Silence is Infinity. Himself have not a face.
204 A slash of Blue— A sweep of Gray— Some scarlet patches on the way, Compose an Evening Sky—
270 One Life of so much Consequence! Yet I—for it—would pay— My Soul’s entire income— In ceaseless—salary—
372 I know lives, I could miss Without a Misery— Others—whose instant’s wanting— Would be Eternity—
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes— I wonder if It weighs like Mine— Or has an Easier size. I wonder if They bore it long—
The wind tapped like a tired man, And like a host, ‘Come in,’ I boldly answered; entered then My residence within A rapid, footless guest,