#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
854 Banish Air from Air— Divide Light if you dare— They’ll meet While Cubes in a Drop
These—saw Visions— Latch them softly— These—held Dimples— Smooth them slow— This—addressed departing accents—
LXI EACH life converges to some cent… Expressed or still; Exists in every human nature A goal,
XCIX THERE is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry.
XXXIV WHO never lost, are unprepared A coronet to find; Who never thirsted, flagons And cooling tamarind.
I held a Jewel in my fingers’— And went to sleep’— The day was warm, and winds were p… I said 'Twill keep’— I woke’—and chid my honest fingers…
99 New feet within my garden go— New fingers stir the sod— A Troubadour upon the Elm Betrays the solitude.
519 ’Twas warm—at first—like Us— Until there crept upon A Chill—like frost upon a Glass— Till all the scene—be gone.
674 The Soul that hath a Guest Doth seldom go abroad— Diviner Crowd at Home— Obliterate the need—
442 God made a little Gentian— It tried—to be a Rose— And failed—and all the Summer lau… But just before the Snows
784 Bereaved of all, I went abroad— No less bereaved was I Upon a New Peninsula— The Grave preceded me—
257 Delight is as the flight— Or in the Ratio of it, As the Schools would say— The Rainbow’s way—
311 It sifts from Leaden Sieves— It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool The Wrinkles of the Road—
486 I was the slightest in the House— I took the smallest Room— At night, my little Lamp, and Boo… And one Geranium—
LXXXII THERE’S a certain slant of ligh… On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
