#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
18 The Gentian weaves her fringes— The Maple’s loom is red— My departing blossoms Obviate parade.
“Heaven” has different Signs—to m… Sometimes, I think that Noon Is but a symbol of the Place— And when again, at Dawn, A mighty look runs round the Worl…
933 Two Travellers perishing in Snow The Forests as they froze Together heard them strengthening Each other with the words
So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go
Epigram THIS is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,— The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty.
78 A poor—torn heart—a tattered heart… That sat it down to rest— Nor noticed that the Ebbing Day Flowed silver to the West—
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,
358 If any sink, assure that this, now… Failed like Themselves—and consci… Grew by the Fact, and not the Und… How Weakness passed—or Force—aros…
Nature rarer uses yellow Than another hue; Saves she all of that for sunsets,… Prodigal of blue, Spending scarlet like a woman,
The dying need but little, dear,— A glass of water’s all, A flower’s unobtrusive face To punctuate the wall, A fan, perhaps, a friend’s regret,
LV I envy seas whereon he rides, I envy spokes of wheels Of chariots that him convey, I envy speechless hills
17 Baffled for just a day or two— Embarrassed—not afraid— Encounter in my garden An unexpected Maid.
914 I cannot be ashamed Because I cannot see The love you offer— Magnitude
“Houses”'—so the Wise Men tell me… Houses—so the Wise Men tell me— “Mansions”! Mansions must be warm… Mansions cannot let the tears in, Mansions must exclude the storm!
Had we our senses But perhaps ’tis well they’re not… So intimate with Madness He’s liable with them Had we the eyes without our Head—