#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
460 I know where Wells grow’—Droughtl… Deep dug’—for Summer days’— Where Mosses go no more away’— And Pebble’—safely plays’—
690 Victory comes late— And is held low to freezing lips— Too rapt with frost To take it—
225 Jesus! thy Crucifix Enable thee to guess The smaller size! Jesus! thy second face
217 Savior! I’ve no one else to tell— And so I trouble thee. I am the one forgot thee so— Dost thou remember me?
574 My first well Day — since many il… I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands… And see the things in Pod —
48 Once more, my now bewildered Dove Bestirs her puzzled wings Once more her mistress, on the dee… Her troubled question flings—
339 I tend my flowers for thee— Bright Absentee! My Fuchsia’s Coral Seams Rip—while the Sower—dreams—
XXII I GAVE myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life Was ratified this way.
260 Read—Sweet—how others—strove— Till we—are stouter— What they—renounced— Till we—are less afraid—
I had been hungry all the years– My noon had come, to dine– I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. ‘T was this on tables I had seen
853 When One has given up One’s life The parting with the rest Feels easy, as when Day lets go Entirely the West
It dropped so low—in my Regard— I heard it hit the Ground— And go to pieces on the Stones At bottom of my Mind— Yet blamed the Fate that flung it…
34 Garland for Queens, may be— Laurels—for rare degree Of soul or sword. Ah—but remembering me—
The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more. Unmoved, she notes the chariot’s p…
810 Her Grace is all she has— And that, so least displays— One Art to recognize, must be, Another Art, to praise.