#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
Safe in their alabaster chambers, Untouched by morning and untouched… Sleep the meek members of the resu… Rafter of satin, and roof of stone… Light laughs the breeze in her cas…
The Work of Her that went, The Toil of Fellows done - In Ovens green our Mother bakes, By Fires of the Sun.
702 A first Mute Coming— In the Stranger’s House— A first fair Going— When the Bells rejoice—
651 So much Summer Me for showing Illegitimate— Would a Smile’s minute bestowing
191 The Skies can’t keep their secret… They tell it to the Hills— The Hills just tell the Orchards— And they—the Daffodils!
There is no Silence in the Earth… As that endured Which uttered, would discourage N… And haunt the World.
XXI 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.
886 These tested Our Horizon— Then disappeared As Birds before achieving A Latitude.
439 Undue Significance a starving man… To Food— Far off—He sighs—and therefore—Ho… And therefore—Good—
433 Knows how to forget! But could It teach it? Easiest of Arts, they say When one learn how
XVIII READ, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid;
392 Through the Dark Sod—as Educatio… The Lily passes sure— Feels her white foot—no trepidatio… Her faith—no fear—
HE preached upon “breadth” till i… The broad are too broad to define: And of “truth” until it proclaimed… The truth never flaunted a sign. Simplicity fled from his counterfe…
Dare you see a Soul at the White… Then crouch within the door— Red—is the Fire’s common tint— But when the vivid Ore Has vanquished Flame’s conditions…
843 I made slow Riches but my Gain Was steady as the Sun And every Night, it numbered more Than the preceding One