I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me. And frigates in the upper floor

999 Superfluous were the Sun When Excellence be dead He were superfluous every Day For every Day be said

612 It would have starved a Gnat— To live so small as I— And yet I was a living Child— With Food’s necessity

732 She rose to His Requirement—dropt The Playthings of Her Life To take the honorable Work Of Woman, and of Wife—

26 It’s all I have to bring today— This, and my heart beside— This, and my heart, and all the fi… And all the meadows wide—

369 She lay as if at play Her life had leaped away— Intending to return— But not so soon—

Perhaps I asked too large— I take—no less than skies— For Earths, grow thick as Berries, in my native town— My Basked holds—just—Firmaments—

586 We talked as Girls do— Fond, and late— We speculated fair, on every subje… Of ours, none affair—

Those fair—fictitious People— The Women—plucked away From our familiar Lifetime— The Men of Ivory— Those Boys and Girls, in Canvas—

192 Poor little Heart! Did they forget thee? Then dinna care! Then dinna care! Proud little Heart!