#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate Whose table once a Guest but not The second time is set.
The inundation of the Spring Enlarges every soul - It sweeps the tenement away But leaves the Water whole - In which the soul at first estrang…
A Counterfeit– a Plated Person… I would not be - Whatever strata of Iniquity My Nature underlie - Truth is good Health - and Safet…
298 Alone, I cannot be— For Hosts—do visit me— Recordless Company— Who baffle Key—
The only ghost I ever saw Was dressed in mechlin,—so; He wore no sandal on his foot, And stepped like flakes of snow. His gait was soundless, like the b…
330 The Juggler’s Hat her Country is… The Mountain Gorse—the Bee’s!
182 If I shouldn’t be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.
“Houses”'—so the Wise Men tell me… Houses—so the Wise Men tell me— “Mansions”! Mansions must be warm… Mansions cannot let the tears in, Mansions must exclude the storm!
139 Soul, Wilt thou toss again? By just such a hazard Hundreds have lost indeed— But tens have won an all—
They dropped like flakes, they dro… Like petals from a rose, When suddenly across the June A wind with fingers goes. They perished in the seamless gras…
121 As Watchers hang upon the East, As Beggars revel at a feast By savory Fancy spread— As brooks in deserts babble sweet
844 Spring is the Period Express from God. Among the other seasons Himself abide,
824 [first version] The Wind begun to knead the Grass… As Women do a Dough— He flung a Hand full at the Plain…
’T IS so much joy! ’T is so much… If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so
XVII SHE rose to his requirement, drop… The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
