#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
596 When I was small, a Woman died— Today—her Only Boy Went up from the Potomac— His face all Victory
Come slowly, Eden Lips unused to thee. Bashful, sip thy jasmines, As the fainting bee,
500 Within my Garden, rides a Bird Upon a single Wheel— Whose spokes a dizzy Music make As ’twere a travelling Mill—
A darting fear—a pomp—a tear— A waking on a morn To find that what one waked for, Inhales the different dawn.
930 There is a June when Corn is cut And Roses in the Seed— A Summer briefer than the first But tenderer indeed
727 Precious to Me—She still shall be… Though She forget the name I bear… The fashion of the Gown I wear— The very Color of My Hair—
874 They won’t frown always—some sweet… When I forget to tease— They’ll recollect how cold I look… And how I just said “Please.”
73 Who never lost, are unprepared A Coronet to find! Who never thirsted Flagons, and Cooling Tamarind!
IX THE heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering;
130 These are the days when Birds com… A very few—a Bird or two— To take a backward look. These are the days when skies resu…
830 To this World she returned. But with a tinge of that— A Compound manner, As a Sod
Air has no Residence, no Neighbor… No Ear, no Door, No Apprehension of Another Oh, Happy Air! Ethereal Guest at e’en an Outcast…
628 They called me to the Window, for “ ’Twas Sunset”—Some one said— I only saw a Sapphire Farm— And just a Single Herd—
900 What did They do since I saw The… Were They industrious? So many questions to put Them Have I the eagerness
She could not live upon the Past The Present did not know her And so she sought this sweet at la… And nature gently owned her The mother that has not a knell