#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
653 Of Being is a Bird The likest to the Down An Easy Breeze do put afloat The General Heavens—upon—
286 That after Horror — that ’twas us… That passed the mouldering Pier — Just as the Granite Crumb let go… Our Savior, by a Hair —
Not “Revelation”—'tis—that waits, But our unfurnished eyes—
453 Love—thou art high— I cannot climb thee— But, were it Two— Who know but we—
889 Crisis is a Hair Toward which the forces creep Past which forces retrograde If it come in sleep
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,
LVII EXCEPT the heaven had come so n… So seemed to choose my door,
XLIII I LIKE to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step
The Devil—had he fidelity Would be the best friend— Because he has ability— But Devils cannot mend— Perfidy is the virtue
963 A nearness to Tremendousness— An Agony procures— Affliction ranges Boundlessness— Vicinity to Laws
307 The One who could repeat the Summ… Were greater than itself—though H… Minutest of Mankind should be— And He—could reproduce the Sun—
You said that I “was Great”'—one… Then “Great” it be’—if that pleas… Or Small’—or any size at all’— Nay’—I’m the size suit Thee’— Tall’—like the Stag’—would that?
16 I would distil a cup, And bear to all my friends, Drinking to her no more astir, By beck, or burn, or moor!
If you were coming in the fall, I’d brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spum, As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year,
Each life converges to some centre Expressed or still; Exists in every human nature A goal, Admitted scarcely to itself, it ma…