#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
A clock stopped—not the mantel’s Geneva’s farthest skill Can’t put the puppet bowing That just now dangled still. An awe came on the trinket!
133 As Children bid the Guest “Good… And then reluctant turn— My flowers raise their pretty lips… Then put their nightgowns on.
206 The Flower must not blame the Bee… That seeketh his felicity Too often at her door— But teach the Footman from Vevay—
373 I’m saying every day “If I should be a Queen, tomorrow… I’d do this way— And so I deck, a little,
534 We see—Comparatively— The Thing so towering high We could not grasp its segment Unaided—Yesterday—
236 If He dissolve – then – there is… Eclipse – at Midnight – It was dark – before – Sunset – at Easter –
179 If I could bribe them by a Rose I’d bring them every flower that g… From Amherst to Cashmere! I would not stop for night, or sto…
377 To lose one’s faith—surpass The loss of an Estate— Because Estates can be Replenished—faith cannot—
890 From Us She wandered now a Year, Her tarrying, unknown, If Wilderness prevent her feet Or that Ethereal Zone
553 One Crucifixion is recorded—only— How many be Is not affirmed of Mathematics— Or History—
LXVII If I should die, And you should live, And time should gurgle on, And morn should beam,
459 A Tooth upon Our Peace The Peace cannot deface— Then Wherefore be the Tooth? To vitalize the Grace—
LXI EACH life converges to some cent… Expressed or still; Exists in every human nature A goal,
612 It would have starved a Gnat— To live so small as I— And yet I was a living Child— With Food’s necessity
A lane of Yellow led the eye Unto a Purple Wood Whose soft inhabitants to be Surpasses solitude If Bird the silence contradict