#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
467 We do not play on Graves— Because there isn’t Room— Besides—it isn’t even—it slants And People come—
598 Three times—we parted—Breath—and… Three times—He would not go— But strove to stir the lifeless F… The Waters—strove to stay.
LV MY country need not change her go… Her triple suit as sweet As when ’t was cut at Lexington, And first pronounced “a fit.”
LXII BEFORE I got my eye put out, I liked as well to see As other creatures that have eyes, And know no other way.
713 Fame of Myself, to justify, All other Plaudit be Superfluous—An Incense Beyond Necessity—
XXXII HOPE is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the wor… And never stops at all,
Part One: Life LIII GOD gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me; I dare not eat it, though I starv…
76 Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea, Past the houses—past the headlands… Into deep Eternity—
XXVII BECAUSE I could not stop for D… He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Oursel… And Immortality.
1540 As imperceptibly as Grief The Summer lapsed away— Too imperceptible at last To seem like Perfidy—
High from the earth I heard a bir… He trod upon the trees As he esteemed them trifles, And then he spied a breeze, And situated softly
550 I cross till I am weary A Mountain—in my mind— More Mountains—then a Sea— More Seas—And then
No matter—now—Sweet— But when I’m Earl— Won’t you wish you’d spoken To that dull Girl? Trivial a Word—just—
326 I cannot dance upon my Toes’— No Man instructed me’— But oftentimes, among my mind, A Glee possesseth me,
CXXXVI I STEPPED from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea.
