#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
30 Adrift! A little boat adrift! And night is coming down! Will no one guide a little boat Unto the nearest town?
A little Snow was here and there Disseminated in her Hair - Since she and I had met and playe… Decade had gathered to Decade - But Time had added not obtained
807 Expectation—is Contentment— Gain—Satiety— But Satiety—Conviction Of Necessity
404 How many Flowers fail in Wood— Or perish from the Hill— Without the privilege to know That they are Beautiful—
The Face we choose to miss - Be it but for a Day As absent as a Hundred Years, When it has rode away.
580 I gave myself to Him— And took Himself, for Pay, The solemn contract of a Life Was ratified, this way—
I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains,
115 What Inn is this Where for the night Peculiar Traveller comes? Who is the Landlord?
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ectasty. For each beloved hour
623 It was too late for Man— But early, yet, for God— Creation—impotent to help— But Prayer—remained—Our Side—
302 Like Some Old fashioned Miracle When Summertime is done— Seems Summer’s Recollection And the Affairs of June
382 For Death—or rather For the Things 'twould buy— This—put away Life’s Opportunity—
818 I could not drink it, Sweet, Till You had tasted first, Though cooler than the Water was The Thoughtfullness of Thirst.
535 She’s happy, with a new Content— That feels to her—like Sacrament— She’s busy—with an altered Care— As just apprenticed to the Air—
911 Too little way the House must lie From every Human Heart That holds in undisputed Lease A white inhabitant—