#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
562 Conjecturing a Climate Of unsuspended Suns— Adds poignancy to Winter— The Shivering Fancy turns
882 A Shade upon the mind there passe… As when on Noon A Cloud the mighty Sun encloses Remembering
They shut me up in Prose— As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet— Because they liked me “still”— Still! Could themself have peeped…
480 “Why do I love” You, Sir? Because— The Wind does not require the Gra… To answer—Wherefore when He pass
283 A Mien to move a Queen— Half Child—Half Heroine— An Orleans in the Eye That puts its manner by
527 To put this World down, like a Bu… And walk steady, away, Requires Energy—possibly Agony— ’Tis the Scarlet way
209 With thee, in the Desert— With thee in the thirst— With thee in the Tamarind wood— Leopard breathes—at last!
129 Cocoon above! Cocoon below! Stealthy Cocoon, why hide you so What all the world suspect? An hour, and gay on every tree
Of so divine a Loss We enter but the Gain, Indemnity for Loneliness That such a Bliss has been.
724 It’s easy to invent a Life— God does it—every Day— Creation—but the Gambol Of His Authority—
100 A science—so the Savants say, “Comparative Anatomy”— By which a single bone— Is made a secret to unfold
997 Crumbling is not an instant’s Act A fundamental pause Dilapidation’s processes Are organized Decays.
548 Death is potential to that Man Who dies—and to his friend— Beyond that—unconspicuous To Anyone but God—
It struck me every day The lightning was as new As if the cloud that instant slit And let the fire through. It burned me in the night,
XXXVII For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.