#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
325 Of Tribulation, these are They, Denoted by the White— The Spangled Gowns, a lesser Ran… Of Victors—designate—
809 Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity— Unable they that love—to die
596 When I was small, a Woman died— Today—her Only Boy Went up from the Potomac— His face all Victory
315 He fumbles at your Soul As Players at the Keys Before they drop full Music on— He stuns you by degrees—
LXIII TALK with prudence to a beggar Of “Potosi” and the mines! Reverently to the hungry Of your viands and your wines!
301 I reason, Earth is short— And Anguish—absolute— And many hurt, But, what of that?
391 A Visitor in Marl— Who influences Flowers— Till they are orderly as Busts— And Elegant—as Glass—
688 “Speech”—is a prank of Parliament… “Tears”—is a trick of the nerve— But the Heart with the heaviest f… Doesn't—always—move—
951 As Frost is best conceived By force of its Result— Affliction is inferred By subsequent effect—
107 ’Twas such a little—little boat That toddled down the bay! ’Twas such a gallant—gallant sea That beckoned it away!
976 Death is a Dialogue between The Spirit and the Dust. “Dissolve” says Death—The Spirit… I have another Trust”—
Your Riches—taught me—Poverty. Myself—a Millionaire In little Wealths, as Girls could… Till broad as Buenos Ayre— You drifted your Dominions—
839 Always Mine! No more Vacation! Term of Light this Day begun! Failless as the fair rotation
A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw. And then he drank a dew
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—