#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
606 The Trees like Tassels—hit—and sw… There seemed to rise a Tune From Miniature Creatures Accompanying the Sun—
669 No Romance sold unto Could so enthrall a Man As the perusal of His Individual One—
693 Shells from the Coast mistaking— I cherished them for All— Happening in After Ages To entertain a Pearl—
765 You constituted Time— I deemed Eternity A Revelation of Yourself— ’Twas therefore Deity
865 He outstripped Time with but a Bo… He outstripped Stars and Sun And then, unjaded, challenged God In presence of the Throne.
Me! Come! My dazzled face In such a shining place! Me! Hear! My foreign ear The sounds of welcome near! The saints shall meet
144 She bore it till the simple veins Traced azure on her hand— Til pleading, round her quiet eyes The purple Crayons stand.
244 It is easy to work when the soul i… But when the soul is in pain— The hearing him put his playthings… Makes work difficult—then—
33 If recollecting were forgetting, Then I remember not. And if forgetting, recollecting, How near I had forgot.
Your Riches—taught me—Poverty. Myself—a Millionaire In little Wealths, as Girls could… Till broad as Buenos Ayre— You drifted your Dominions—
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…
404 How many Flowers fail in Wood— Or perish from the Hill— Without the privilege to know That they are Beautiful—
XL I NEVER lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod; Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God!
28 So has a Daisy vanished From the fields today— So tiptoed many a slipper To Paradise away—
356 The Day that I was crowned Was like the other Days— Until the Coronation came— And then—'twas Otherwise—
