#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
XXII I GAVE myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life Was ratified this way.
703 Out of sight? What of that? See the Bird—reach it! Curve by Curve—Sweep by Sweep— Round the Steep Air—
730 Defrauded I a Butterfly— The lawful Heir—for Thee—
56 If I should cease to bring a Rose Upon a festal day, ‘Twill be because beyond the Rose I have been called away—
966 All forgot for recollecting Just a paltry One— All forsook, for just a Stranger’… New Accompanying—
751 My Worthiness is all my Doubt— His Merit—all my fear— Contrasting which, my quality Do lowlier—appear—
841 A Moth the hue of this Haunts Candles in Brazil. Nature’s Experience would make Our Reddest Second pale.
XIII THE soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
695 As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea— And that—a further—and the Three But a presumption be—
XLV DELIGHT becomes pictorial When viewed through pain,— More fair, because impossible That any gain.
401 What Soft—Cherubic Creatures— These Gentlewomen are— One would as soon assault a Plush… Or violate a Star—
I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was la… In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed…
394 ’Twas Love’—not me’— Oh punish’—pray’— The Real one died for Thee’— Just Him’—not me’—
453 Love — thou art high — I cannot climb thee — But, were it Two — Who knows but we —
A door just opened on a street— I, lost, was passing by— An instant’s width of warmth discl… And wealth, and company. The door as sudden shut, and I,