#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
168 If the foolish, call them “flowers… Need the wiser, tell? If the Savants “Classify” them It is just as well!
490 To One denied the drink To tell what Water is Would be acuter, would it not Than letting Him surmise?
45 There’s something quieter than sle… Within this inner room! It wears a sprig upon its breast— And will not tell its name.
979 This Merit hath the worst— It cannot be again— When Fate hath taunted last And thrown Her furthest Stone—
396 There is a Languor of the Life More imminent than Pain— ’Tis Pain’s Successor—When the S… Has suffered all it can—
532 I tried to think a lonelier Thing Than any I had seen— Some Polar Expiation—An Omen in… Of Death’s tremendous nearness—
713 Fame of Myself, to justify, All other Plaudit be Superfluous—An Incense Beyond Necessity—
960 As plan for Noon and plan for Nig… So differ Life and Death In positive Prospective— The Foot upon the Earth
Dying at my music! Bubble! Bubble! Hold me till the Octave’s run! Quick! Burst the Windows! Ritardando!
The day came slow, till five o’clo… Then sprang before the hills, Like hindered rubies, or the light… A sudden musket spills. The purple could not keep the east…
309 For largest Woman’s Hearth I kne… ’Tis little I can do— And yet the largest Woman’s Heart Could hold an Arrow—too—
Nature rarer uses yellow Than another hue; Saves she all of that for sunsets,… Prodigal of blue, Spending scarlet like a woman,
XII I ASKED no other thing, No other was denied. I offered Being for it; The mighty merchant smiled.
The nearest dream recedes, unreali… The heaven we chase Like the June bee Before the school-boy Invites the race;
98 One dignity delays for all— One mitred Afternoon— None can avoid this purple— None evade this Crown!
