#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
41 I robbed the Woods— The trusting Woods. The unsuspecting Trees Brought out their Burs and mosses
How slow the Wind - how slow the sea - how late their Fathers be!
818 I could not drink it, Sweet, Till You had tasted first, Though cooler than the Water was The Thoughtfullness of Thirst.
281 ’Tis so appalling—it exhilarates— So over Horror, it half Captivate… The Soul stares after it, secure— A Sepulchre, fears frost, no more…
772 The hallowing of Pain Like hallowing of Heaven, Obtains at a corporeal cost— The Summit is not given
452 The Malay—took the Pearl— Not—I—the Earl— I—feared the Sea—too much Unsanctified—to touch—
The Hills in Purple syllables The Day’s Adventures tell To little Groups of Continents Just going Home from School.
93 Went up a year this evening! I recollect it well! Amid no bells nor bravoes The bystanders will tell!
Volcanoes be in Sicily And South America I judge from my Geography - Volcanos nearer here A Lava step at any time
786 Severer Service of myself I—hastened to demand To fill the awful Vacuum Your life had left behind—
Air has no Residence, no Neighbor… No Ear, no Door, No Apprehension of Another Oh, Happy Air! Ethereal Guest at e’en an Outcast…
950 The Sunset stopped on Cottages Where Sunset hence must be For treason not of His, but Life’… Gone Westerly, Today—
I found the phrase to every though… I ever had, but one; And that defies me,—as a hand Did try to chalk the sun To races nurtured in the dark;—
She sweeps with many-colored broom… And leaves the shreds behind; Oh, housewife in the evening west, Come back, and dust the pond! You dropped a purple ravelling in,
LVI Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent In an emergency!
