#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
944 I learned—at least—what Home coul… How ignorant I had been Of pretty ways of Covenant— How awkward at the Hymn
384 No Rack can torture me— My Soul—at Liberty— Behind this mortal Bone There knits a bolder One—
49 I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod. Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God!
I dreaded that first robin so, But he is mastered now, And I’m accustomed to him grown,— He hurts a little, though. I thought if I could only live
THE LARGEST fire ever known Occurs each afternoon, Discovered is without surprise, Proceeds without concern: Consumes, and no report to men,
Who were “the Father and the Son” We pondered when a child, And what had they to do with us And when portentous told With inference appalling
The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,— The sweeping up the heart,
194 On this long storm the Rainbow ro… On this late Morn—the Sun— The clouds—like listless Elephant… Horizons—straggled down—
907 Till Death’—is narrow Loving’— The scantest Heart extant Will hold you till your privilege Of Finiteness’—be spent’—
551 There is a Shame of Nobleness— Confronting Sudden Pelf— A finer Shame of Ecstasy— Convicted of Itself—
839 Always Mine! No more Vacation! Term of Light this Day begun! Failless as the fair rotation
83 Heart, not so heavy as mine Wending late home— As it passed my window Whistled itself a tune—
127 “Houses”—so the Wise Men tell me— “Mansions”! Mansions must be warm… Mansions cannot let the tears in, Mansions must exclude the storm!
Not with a club, the Heart is bro… Nor with a stone; A whip, so small you could not see… I’ve known To lash the magic creature
The Soul selects her own Society— Then—shuts the Door— To her divine Majority— Present no more— Unmoved—she notes the Chariots—pa…