#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
91 So bashful when I spied her! So pretty—so ashamed! So hidden in her leaflets Lest anybody find—
424 Removed from Accident of Loss By Accident of Gain Befalling not my simple Days— Myself had just to earn—
113 Our share of night to bear— Our share of morning— Our blank in bliss to fill Our blank in scorning—
Not Sickness stains the Brave, Nor any Dart, Nor Doubt of Scene to come, But an adjourning Heart -
340 Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I’d rather suit my foot
854 Banish Air from Air— Divide Light if you dare— They’ll meet While Cubes in a Drop
’T IS so much joy! ’T is so much… If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so
128 Bring me the sunset in a cup, Reckon the morning’s flagons up And say how many Dew, Tell me how far the morning leaps—
They shut me up in Prose— As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet— Because they liked me “still”— Still! Could themself have peeped…
Sometimes with the Heart Seldom with the Soul Scarcer once with the Might Few - love at all.
268 Me, change! Me, alter! Then I will, when on the Everlast… A Smaller Purple grows— At sunset, or a lesser glow
959 A loss of something ever felt I— The first that I could recollect Bereft I was—of what I knew not Too young that any should suspect
130 These are the days when Birds com… A very few—a Bird or two— To take a backward look. These are the days when skies resu…
VIII A wounded deer leaps highest, I ’ve heard the hunter tell; ’T is but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still.
480 “Why do I love” You, Sir? Because— The Wind does not require the Gra… To answer—Wherefore when He pass