#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
107 ’Twas such a little—little boat That toddled down the bay! ’Twas such a gallant—gallant sea That beckoned it away!
490 To One denied the drink To tell what Water is Would be acuter, would it not Than letting Him surmise?
119 Talk with prudence to a Beggar Of “Potose,” and the mines! Reverently, to the Hungry Of your viands, and your wines!
IF I can stop one heart from brea… I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching… Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin
439 Undue Significance a starving man… To Food— Far off—He sighs—and therefore—Ho… And therefore—Good—
I found the phrase to every though… I ever had, but one; And that defies me,—as a hand Did try to chalk the sun To races nurtured in the dark;—
These—saw Visions— Latch them softly— These—held Dimples— Smooth them slow— This—addressed departing accents—
619 Glee—The great storm is over— Four—have recovered the Land— Forty gone down together— Into the boiling Sand.
836 Truth—is as old as God— His Twin identity And will endure as long as He A Co-Eternity—
The nearest dream recedes, unreali… The heaven we chase Like the June bee Before the school-boy Invites the race;
Part One: Life LI IT tossed and tossed,— A little brig I knew,— O’ertook by blast,
I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains,
XXIII A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw.
684 Best Gains—must have the Losses’… To constitute them—Gains—
To see her is a Picture— To hear her is a Tune— To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June— To know her not—Affliction—