#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
873 Ribbons of the Year— Multitude Brocade— Worn to Nature’s Party once Then, as flung aside
178 I cautious, scanned my little life… I winnowed what would fade From what would last till Heads l… Should be a-dreaming laid.
809 Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity— Unable they that love—to die
329 So glad we are—a Stranger’d deem ’Twas sorry, that we were— For where the Holiday should be There publishes a Tear—
A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind. The vane a little to the east
134 Perhaps you’d like to buy a flower… But I could never sell— If you would like to borrow, Until the Daffodil
498 I envy Seas, whereon He rides— I envy Spokes of Wheels Of Chariots, that Him convey— I envy Crooked Hills
II OUR share of night to bear, Our share of morning, Our blank in bliss to fill, Our blank in scorning.
Ample make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight,
422 More Life—went out—when He went Than Ordinary Breath— Lit with a finer Phosphor— Requiring in the Quench—
778 This that would greet—an hour ago— Is quaintest Distance—now— Had it a Guest from Paradise— Nor glow, would it, nor bow—
26 It’s all I have to bring today— This, and my heart beside— This, and my heart, and all the fi… And all the meadows wide—
She sweeps with many-colored broom… And leaves the shreds behind; Oh, housewife in the evening west, Come back, and dust the pond! You dropped a purple ravelling in,
To lose thee, sweeter than to gain All other hearts I knew. Tis true the drought is destitute But, then, I had the dew! The Caspian has its realms of san…
I have no life but this, To lead it here; Nor any death, but lest Dispelled from there; Nor tie to earths to come,