#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
284 The Drop, that wrestles in the Se… Forgets her own locality— As I—toward Thee— She knows herself an incense small…
614 In falling Timbers buried— There breathed a Man— Outside—the spades—were plying— The Lungs—within—
988 The Definition of Beauty is That Definition is none— Of Heaven, easing Analysis, Since Heaven and He are one.
463 I live with Him — I see His face… I go no more away For Visitor — or Sundown — Death's single privacy
616 I rose—because He sank— I thought it would be opposite— But when his power dropped— My Soul grew straight.
830 To this World she returned. But with a tinge of that— A Compound manner, As a Sod
133 As Children bid the Guest “Good… And then reluctant turn— My flowers raise their pretty lips… Then put their nightgowns on.
632 The Brain—is wider than the Sky— For—put them side by side— The one the other will contain With ease—and You—beside—
932 My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word— The Stars that stated come to Tow… Esteemed Me never rude
46 I keep my pledge. I was not called— Death did not notice me. I bring my Rose.
I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains,
694 The Heaven vests for Each In that small Deity It craved the grace to worship Some bashful Summer’s Day—
A drop fell on the apple tree, Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went out to help the brook,
340 Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I’d rather suit my foot
883 The Poets light but Lamps— Themselves—go out— The Wicks they stimulate— If vital Light