#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
459 A Tooth upon Our Peace The Peace cannot deface— Then Wherefore be the Tooth? To vitalize the Grace—
237 I think just how my shape will ris… When I shall be “forgiven”— Till Hair—and Eyes—and timid Hea… Are out of sight—in Heaven—
453 Love—thou art high— I cannot climb thee— But, were it Two— Who know but we—
426 It don't sound so terrible—quite—a… I run it over—"Dead", Brain, "De… Put it in Latin—left of my school… Seems it don't shriek so—under rul…
578 The Body grows without— The more convenient way— That if the Spirit—like to hide Its Temple stands, alway,
131 Besides the Autumn poets sing A few prosaic days A little this side of the snow And that side of the Haze—
158 Dying! Dying in the night! Won’t somebody bring the light So I can see which way to go Into the everlasting snow?
XVIII READ, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid;
There is another sky, Ever serene and fair, And there is another sunshine, Though it be darkness there; Never mind faded forests, Austin,
‘Heavenly Father’ - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us - seems to us
Lives he in any other world My faith cannot reply Before it was imperative ’Twas all distinct to me -
781 To wait an Hour—is long— If Love be just beyond— To wait Eternity—is short— If Love reward the end—
54 If I should die, And you should live— And time should gurgle on— And morn should beam—
I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next
Out of sight? What of that? See the Bird —reach it! Curve by Curve —Sweep by Sweep — Round the Steep Air — Danger! What is that to Her?