#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
761 From Blank to Blank— A Threadless Way I pushed Mechanic feet— To stop—or perish—or advance—
How lonesome the Wind must feel N… When people have put out the Ligh… And everything that has an Inn Closes the shutter and goes in— How pompous the Wind must feel No…
The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,— The sweeping up the heart,
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers— Untouched by Morning— and untouched by noon— Sleep the meek members of the Res… Rafter of Satin and Roof of Ston…
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
LXXXVI A LADY red upon the hill Her annual secret keeps; A lady white within the field In placid lily sleeps!
617 Don’t put up my Thread and Needle… I’ll begin to Sew When the Birds begin to whistle— Better Stitches—so—
631 Ourselves were wed one summer—dear… Your Vision—was in June— And when Your little Lifetime fai… I wearied—too—of mine—
Is it too late to touch you, Dear… We this moment knew - Love Marine and Love terrene - Love celestial too -
372 I know lives, I could miss Without a Misery— Others—whose instant’s wanting— Would be Eternity—
917 Love—is anterior to Life— Posterior—to Death— Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth—
470 I am alive—I guess— The Branches on my Hand Are full of Morning Glory— And at my finger’s end—
Some keep the Sabbath going to Ch… I keep it, staying at Home— With a Bobolink for a Chorister— And an Orchard, for a Dome— Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice…
How firm Eternity must look To crumbling men like me The only Adamant Estate In all Identity - How mighty to the insecure
A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard— Till morning touching mountain—