#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
289 I know some lonely Houses off the… A Robber’d like the look of— Wooden barred, And Windows hanging low,
188 Make me a picture of the sun— So I can hang it in my room— And make believe I’m getting warm When others call it “Day”!
135 Water, is taught by thirst. Land—by the Oceans passed. Transport—by throe— Peace—by its battles told—
982 No Other can reduce Our mortal Consequence Like the remembering it be nought A Period from hence
The nearest dream recedes, unreali… The heaven we chase Like the June bee Before the school-boy Invites the race;
888 When I have seen the Sun emerge From His amazing House— And leave a Day at every Door A Deed, in every place—
728 Let Us play Yesterday— I—the Girl at school— You—and Eternity—the Untold Tale—
XXVII BECAUSE I could not stop for D… He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Oursel… And Immortality.
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
A Counterfeit– a Plated Person… I would not be - Whatever strata of Iniquity My Nature underlie - Truth is good Health - and Safet…
930 There is a June when Corn is cut And Roses in the Seed— A Summer briefer than the first But tenderer indeed
Shall I take thee, the Poet said To the propounded word? Be stationed with the Candidates Till I have finer tried— The Poet searched Philology
103 I have a King, who does not speak… So—wondering—thro’ the hours meek I trudge the day away— Half glad when it is night, and sl…
A Sloop of Amber slips away Upon an Ether Sea, And wrecks in Peace a Purple Tar… The Son of Ecstasy -
281 ’Tis so appalling—it exhilarates— So over Horror, it half Captivate… The Soul stares after it, secure— A Sepulchre, fears frost, no more…