#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
I bet with every Wind that blew Till Nature in chagrin Employed a Fact to visit me And scuttle my Balloon -
411 The Color of the Grave is Green— The Outer Grave—I mean— You would not know it from the Fi… Except it own a Stone—
How slow the Wind - how slow the sea - how late their Fathers be!
A House upon the Height— That Wagon never reached— No Dead, were ever carried down— No Peddler’s Cart—approached— Whose Chimney never smoked—
XXII I GAVE myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life Was ratified this way.
83 Heart, not so heavy as mine Wending late home— As it passed my window Whistled itself a tune—
566 A Dying Tiger—moaned for Drink— I hunted all the Sand— I caught the Dripping of a Rock And bore it in my Hand—
37 Before the ice is in the pools— Before the skaters go, Or any check at nightfall Is tarnished by the snow—
The Snow that never drifts - The transient, fragrant snow That comes a single time a Year Is softly driving now - So thorough in the Tree
‘And with what body do they come?’… Then they do come - Rejoice! What Door– What Hour– Run– ru… Illuminate the House! ‘Body!’ Then real– a Face and E…
346 Not probable—The barest Chance— A smile too few—a word too much And far from Heaven as the Rest— The Soul so close on Paradise—
He ate and drank the precious Wor… His Spirit grew robust— He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was Dust— He danced along the dingy Days
105 To hang our head—ostensibly— And subsequent, to find That such was not the posture Of our immortal mind—
72 Glowing is her Bonnet, Glowing is her Cheek, Glowing is her Kirtle, Yet she cannot speak.
669 No Romance sold unto Could so enthrall a Man As the perusal of His Individual One—
