#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
LX A SHADY friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.
Renunciation—is a piercing Virtue… The letting go A Presence—for an Expectation— Not now— The putting out of Eyes—
CXXXVI I STEPPED from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea.
321 Of all the Sounds despatched abro… There’s not a Charge to me Like that old measure in the Boug… That phraseless Melody—
289 I know some lonely Houses off the… A Robber’d like the look of— Wooden barred, And Windows hanging low,
184 A transport one cannot contain May yet a transport be— Though God forbid it lift the lid… Unto its Ecstasy!
785 They have a little Odor—that to m… Is metre—nay—’tis melody— And spiciest at fading—indicate— A Habit—of a Laureate—
LXIII Ample make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair.
740 You taught me Waiting with Myself… Appointment strictly kept’— You taught me fortitude of Fate’— This’—also’—I have learnt’—
410 The first Day’s Night had come— And grateful that a thing So terrible—had been endured— I told my Soul to sing—
III SOUL, wilt thou toss again? By just such a hazard Hundreds have lost, indeed, But tens have won an all.
298 Alone, I cannot be— For Hosts—do visit me— Recordless Company— Who baffle Key—
229 A Burdock—clawed my Gown— Not Burdock’s—blame— But mine— Who went too near
580 I gave myself to Him— And took Himself, for Pay, The solemn contract of a Life Was ratified, this way—
786 Severer Service of myself I—hastened to demand To fill the awful Vacuum Your life had left behind—
