#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
201 Two swimmers wrestled on the spar— Until the morning sun— When One—turned smiling to the la… Oh God! the Other One!
921 If it had no pencil Would it try mine— Worn—now—and dull—sweet, Writing much to thee.
598 Three times—we parted—Breath—and… Three times—He would not go— But strove to stir the lifeless F… The Waters—strove to stay.
551 There is a Shame of Nobleness— Confronting Sudden Pelf— A finer Shame of Ecstasy— Convicted of Itself—
571 Must be a Woe— A loss or so— To bend the eye Best Beauty’s way—
LVIII PORTRAITS are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.
796 Who Giants know, with lesser Men Are incomplete, and shy— For Greatness, that is ill at eas… In minor Company—
A little Dog that wags his tail And knows no other joy Of such a little Dog am I Reminded by a Boy Who gambols all the living Day
139 Soul, Wilt thou toss again? By just such a hazard Hundreds have lost indeed— But tens have won an all—
889 Crisis is a Hair Toward which the forces creep Past which forces retrograde If it come in sleep
9 Through lane it lay—through brambl… Through clearing and through wood— Banditti often passed us Upon the lonely road.
We like March, his shoes are purp… He is new and high; Makes he mud for dog and peddler, Makes he forest dry; Knows the adder’s tongue his comin…
Nature, the gentlest mother, Impatient of no child, The feeblest or the waywardest, Her admonition mild In forest and the hill
821 Away from Home are some and I— An Emigrant to be In a Metropolis of Homes Is easy, possibly—
897 How fortunate the Grave— All Prizes to obtain— Successful certain, if at last, First Suitor not in vain.