#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
588 I cried at Pity—not at Pain— I heard a Woman say “Poor Child”—and something in her… Convicted me—of me—
718 I meant to find Her when I came— Death—had the same design— But the Success—was His—it seems— And the Surrender—Mine—
17 Baffled for just a day or two— Embarrassed—not afraid— Encounter in my garden An unexpected Maid.
186 What shall I do—it whimpers so— This little Hound within the Hear… All day and night with bark and st… And yet, it will not go—
857 Uncertain lease—develops lustre On Time Uncertain Grasp, appreciation Of Sum—
CXXVIII 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.
784 Bereaved of all, I went abroad— No less bereaved was I Upon a New Peninsula— The Grave preceded me—
Witchcraft has not a Pedigree ’Tis early as our Breath And mourners meet it going out The moment of our death—
676 Least Bee that brew— A Honey’s Weight Content Her smallest fraction hel… The Amber Quantity—
938 Fairer through Fading—as the Day Into the Darkness dips away— Half Her Complexion of the Sun— Hindering—Haunting—Perishing—
A door just opened on a street— I, lost, was passing by— An instant’s width of warmth discl… And wealth, and company. The door as sudden shut, and I,
XXII I GAVE myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life Was ratified this way.
Part One: Life XXXV I CAN wade grief, Whole pools of it,— I ’m used to that.
923 How the Waters closed above Him We shall never know— How He stretched His Anguish to… That—is covered too—
82 Whose cheek is this? What rosy face Has lost a blush today? I found her—"pleiad"—in the woods
