#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
877 Each Scar I’ll keep for Him Instead I’ll say of Gem In His long Absence worn A Costlier one
438 Forget! The lady with the Amulet Forget she wore it at her Heart Because she breathed against Was Treason twixt?
I watched the Moon around the Hou… Until upon a Pane— She stopped—a Traveller’s privile… And there upon I gazed—as at a stranger—
273 He put the Belt around my life I heard the Buckle snap— And turned away, imperial, My Lifetime folding up—
416 A Murmur in the Trees—to note— Not loud enough—for Wind— A Star—not far enough to seek— Nor near enough—to find—
597 It always felt to me—a wrong To that Old Moses—done— To let him see—the Canaan— Without the entering—
A slash of Blue— A sweep of Gray— Some scarlet patches on the way, Compose an Evening Sky— A little purple—slipped between—
514 Her smile was shaped like other sm… The Dimples ran along— And still it hurt you, as some Bi… Did hoist herself, to sing,
“Heaven” has different Signs—to m… Sometimes, I think that Noon Is but a symbol of the Place— And when again, at Dawn, A mighty look runs round the Worl…
714 Rest at Night The Sun from shining, Nature—and some Men— Rest at Noon—some Men—
A lane of Yellow led the eye Unto a Purple Wood Whose soft inhabitants to be Surpasses solitude If Bird the silence contradict
452 The Malay—took the Pearl— Not—I—the Earl— I—feared the Sea—too much Unsanctified—to touch—
271 A solemn thing—it was—I said— A woman—white—to be— And wear—if God should count me f… Her blameless mystery—
782 There is an arid Pleasure— As different from Joy— As Frost is different from Dew— Like element—are they—
571 Must be a Woe— A loss or so— To bend the eye Best Beauty’s way—