#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
These Fevered Days—to take them t… Where Waters cool around the moss… And shade is all that devastates t… Seems it sometimes this would be a…
13 Sleep is supposed to be By souls of sanity The shutting of the eye. Sleep is the station grand
298 Alone, I cannot be— For Hosts—do visit me— Recordless Company— Who baffle Key—
96 Sexton! My Master’s sleeping here… Pray lead me to his bed! I came to build the Bird’s nest, And sow the Early seed—
261 Put up my lute! What of—my Music! Since the sole ear I cared to cha… Passive—as Granite—laps My Music…
676 Least Bee that brew— A Honey’s Weight Content Her smallest fraction hel… The Amber Quantity—
985 The Missing All’—prevented Me From missing minor Things. If nothing larger than a World’s Departure from a Hinge’—
I held a Jewel in my fingers’— And went to sleep’— The day was warm, and winds were p… I said 'Twill keep’— I woke’—and chid my honest fingers…
I saw the wind within her I knew it blew for me '— But she must buy my shelter I asked Humility
LVIII PORTRAITS are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.
LXVII A DEED knocks first at thought, And then it knocks at will. That is the manufacturing spot, And will at home and well.
476 I meant to have but modest needs— Such as Content—and Heaven— Within my income—these could lie And Life and I—keep even—
557 She hideth Her the last— And is the first, to rise— Her Night doth hardly recompense The Closing of Her eyes—
867 Escaping backward to perceive The Sea upon our place— Escaping forward, to confront His glittering Embrace—
989 Gratitude—is not the mention Of a Tenderness, But its still appreciation Out of Plumb of Speech.