#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
204 A slash of Blue— A sweep of Gray— Some scarlet patches on the way, Compose an Evening Sky—
15 The Guest is gold and crimson— An Opal guest and gray— Of Ermine is his doublet— His Capuchin gay—
XVIII READ, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid;
969 He who in Himself believes— Fraud cannot presume— Faith is Constancy’s Result— And assumes—from Home—
39 It did not surprise me— So I said—or thought— She will stir her pinions And the nest forgot,
1035 Bee! I’m expecting you! Was saying Yesterday To Somebody you know That you were due—
If all the griefs I am to have Would only come today, I am so happy I believe They’d laugh and run away. If all the joys I am to have
597 It always felt to me—a wrong To that Old Moses—done— To let him see—the Canaan— Without the entering—
The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more. Unmoved, she notes the chariot’s p…
After great pain a formal feeling… The nerves sit ceremonious like to… The stiff Heart questions—was it… And yesterday—or centuries before? The feet, mechanical, go round
LXVII If I should die, And you should live, And time should gurgle on, And morn should beam,
It is an honorable thought, And makes one lift one’s hat, As one encountered gentlefolk Upon a daily street, That we’ve immortal place,
166 I met a King this afternoon! He had not on a Crown indeed, A little Palmleaf Hat was all, And he was barefoot, I’m afraid!
850 I sing to use the Waiting My Bonnet but to tie And shut the Door unto my House No more to do have I
417 Is it dead—Find it— Out of sound—Out of sight— “Happy”? Which is wiser— You, or the Wind?