#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
963 A nearness to Tremendousness— An Agony procures— Affliction ranges Boundlessness— Vicinity to Laws
501 This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond— Invisible, as Music— But positive, as Sound—
917 Love—is anterior to Life— Posterior—to Death— Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth—
805 This Bauble was preferred of Bees… By Butterflies admired At Heavenly—Hopeless Distances— Was justified of Bird—
118 My friend attacks my friend! Oh Battle picturesque! Then I turn Soldier too, And he turns Satirist!
512 The Soul has Bandaged moments— When too appalled to stir— She feels some ghastly Fright com… And stop to look at her—
660 ’Tis good—the looking back on Gri… To re-endure a Day— We thought the Mighty Funeral— Of All Conceived Joy—
The going from a world we know To one a wonder still Is like the child’s adversity Whose vista is a hill, Behind the hill is sorcery
A toad can die of light! Death is the common right Of toads and men,— Of earl and midge The privilege.
789 On a Columnar Self— How ample to rely In Tumult—or Extremity— How good the Certainty
612 It would have starved a Gnat— To live so small as I— And yet I was a living Child— With Food’s necessity
117 In rags mysterious as these The shining Courtiers go— Veiling the purple, and the plumes… Veiling the ermine so.
XVII SHE rose to his requirement, drop… The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
Are Friends Delight or Pain? Could Bounty but remain Riches were good - But if they only stay Ampler to fly away
339 I tend my flowers for thee— Bright Absentee! My Fuchsia’s Coral Seams Rip—while the Sower—dreams—
