#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
767 To offer brave assistance To Lives that stand alone— When One has failed to stop them— Is Human—but Divine
God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me; I dare not eat it, though I starv… My poignant luxury To own it, touch it, prove the fea…
UP with the sun, the breeze arose… Across the talking corn she goes, And smooth she rustles far and wid… Through all the voiceful countrysi… Through all the land her tale she…
593 I think I was enchanted When first a sombre Girl— I read that Foreign Lady— The Dark—felt beautiful—
363 I went to thank Her— But She Slept— Her Bed—a funneled Stone— With Nosegays at the Head and Fo…
39 It did not surprise me— So I said—or thought— She will stir her pinions And the nest forgot,
The spider holds a Silver Ball In unperceived Hands— And dancing softly to Himself His Yarn of Pearl—unwinds— He plies from Nought to Nought—
Death is like the insect Menacing the tree, Competent to kill it, But decoyed may be. Bait it with the balsam,
878 The Sun is gay or stark According to our Deed. If Merry, He is merrier— If eager for the Dead
378 I saw no Way—The Heavens were st… I felt the Columns close— The Earth reversed her Hemisphere… I touched the Universe—
XI MUCH madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. ’T is the majority
781 To wait an Hour—is long— If Love be just beyond— To wait Eternity—is short— If Love reward the end—
134 Perhaps you’d like to buy a flower… But I could never sell— If you would like to borrow, Until the Daffodil
975 The Mountain sat upon the Plain In his tremendous Chair— His observation omnifold, His inquest, everywhere—
44 If she had been the Mistletoe And I had been the Rose— How gay upon your table My velvet life to close—