#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
971 Robbed by Death—but that was easy… To the failing Eye I could hold the latest Glowing— Robbed by Liberty
VIII A wounded deer leaps highest, I ’ve heard the hunter tell; ’T is but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still.
523 Sweet—You forgot—but I remembered Every time—for Two— So that the Sum be never hindered Through Decay of You—
624 Forever—it composed of Nows— ’Tis not a different time— Except for Infiniteness— And Latitude of Home—
702 A first Mute Coming— In the Stranger’s House— A first fair Going— When the Bells rejoice—
Years I had been from home, And now, before the door I dared not open, lest a face I never saw before Stare vacant into mine
661 Could I but ride indefinite As doth the Meadow Bee And visit only where I liked And No one visit me
343 My Reward for Being, was This. My premium—My Bliss— An Admiralty, less— A Sceptre—penniless—
The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. If nature will not tell the tale
759 He fought like those Who’ve nough… Bestowed Himself to Balls As One who for a further Life Had not a further Use—
STEP lightly on this narrow spot… The broadest land that grows Is not so ample as the breast These emerald seams enclose. Step lofty; for this name is told
828 The Robin is the One That interrupt the Morn With hurried—few—express Reports When March is scarcely on—
921 If it had no pencil Would it try mine— Worn—now—and dull—sweet, Writing much to thee.
518 Her sweet Weight on my Heart a N… Had scarcely deigned to lie— When, stirring, for Belief’s deli… My Bride had slipped away—
No rack can torture me, My soul’s at liberty Behind this mortal bone There knits a bolder one You cannot prick with saw,