#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
501 This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond— Invisible, as Music— But positive, as Sound—
Witchcraft has not a Pedigree ’Tis early as our Breath And mourners meet it going out The moment of our death—
619 Glee—The great storm is over— Four—have recovered the Land— Forty gone down together— Into the boiling Sand.
292 If your Nerve, deny you— Go above your Nerve— He can lean against the Grave, If he fear to swerve—
438 Forget! The lady with the Amulet Forget she wore it at her Heart Because she breathed against Was Treason twixt?
845 Be Mine the Doom— Sufficient Fame— To perish in Her Hand!
742 Four Trees—upon a solitary Acre— Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action— Maintain—
129 Cocoon above! Cocoon below! Stealthy Cocoon, why hide you so What all the world suspect? An hour, and gay on every tree
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry....
206 The Flower must not blame the Bee… That seeketh his felicity Too often at her door— But teach the Footman from Vevay—
283 A Mien to move a Queen— Half Child—Half Heroine— An Orleans in the Eye That puts its manner by
Air has no Residence, no Neighbor… No Ear, no Door, No Apprehension of Another Oh, Happy Air! Ethereal Guest at e’en an Outcast…
Lightly stepped a yellow star To its lofty place - Loosed the Moon her silver hat From her lustral Face - All of Evening softly lit
446 I showed her Heights she never sa… “Would’st Climb,” I said? She said—"Not so"— “With me—” I said—With me?
256 If I’m lost—now That I was found— Shall still my transport be— That once—on me—those Jasper Gate…