#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
963 A nearness to Tremendousness— An Agony procures— Affliction ranges Boundlessness— Vicinity to Laws
377 To lose one’s faith—surpass The loss of an Estate— Because Estates can be Replenished—faith cannot—
191 The Skies can’t keep their secret… They tell it to the Hills— The Hills just tell the Orchards— And they—the Daffodils!
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself,
XX ARCTURUS is his other name,— I ’d rather call him star! It ’s so unkind of science To go and interfere!
It’s like the light,— A fashionless delight It’s like the bee,— A dateless melody. It’s like the woods,
The earth has many keys, Where melody is not Is the unknown peninsula. Beauty is nature’s fact. But witness for her land,
623 It was too late for Man— But early, yet, for God— Creation—impotent to help— But Prayer—remained—Our Side—
Whole Gulfs– of Red, and Fleets… And Crews– of solid Blood – Did place upon the West– Tonight… As ’twere specific Ground - And They– appointed Creatures –
A PRECIOUS, mouldering pleasur… To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore… A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take,
653 Of Being is a Bird The likest to the Down An Easy Breeze do put afloat The General Heavens—upon—
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
All men for Honor hardest work But are not known to earn - Paid after they have ceased to wor… In Infamy or Urn -
It struck me every day The lightning was as new As if the cloud that instant slit And let the fire through. It burned me in the night,
