#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. The eyes beside had wrung them dry…
549 That I did always love I bring thee Proof That till I loved I never lived—Enough—
123 Many cross the Rhine In this cup of mine. Sip old Frankfort air From my brown Cigar.
917 Love—is anterior to Life— Posterior—to Death— Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth—
961 Wert Thou but ill—that I might sh… How long a Day I could endure Though thine attention stop not on… Nor the least signal, Me assure—
473 I am ashamed’—I hide’— What right have I’—to be a Bride’… So late a Dowerless Girl’— Nowhere to hide my dazzled Face’—
517 He parts Himself—like Leaves— And then—He closes up— Then stands upon the Bonnet Of Any Buttercup—
207 Tho’ I get home how late—how late… So I get home—’twill compensate— Better will be the Ecstasy That they have done expecting me—
XLIX WE outgrow love like other things And put it in the drawer, Till it an antique fashion shows Like costumes grandsires wore.
378 I saw no Way—The Heavens were st… I felt the Columns close— The Earth reversed her Hemisphere… I touched the Universe—
334 All the letters I can write Are not fair as this— Syllables of Velvet— Sentences of Plush,
The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon. The low grass loaded with the dew,
841 A Moth the hue of this Haunts Candles in Brazil. Nature’s Experience would make Our Reddest Second pale.
972 Unfulfilled to Observation— Incomplete—to Eye— But to Faith—a Revolution In Locality—
765 You constituted Time— I deemed Eternity A Revelation of Yourself— ’Twas therefore Deity
