#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
My Garden—like the Beach— Denotes there be—a Sea— That’s Summer— Such as These—the Pearls She fetches—such as Me
695 As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea— And that—a further—and the Three But a presumption be—
845 Be Mine the Doom— Sufficient Fame— To perish in Her Hand!
It dropped so low—in my Regard— I heard it hit the Ground— And go to pieces on the Stones At bottom of my Mind— Yet blamed the Fate that flung it…
822 This Consciousness that is aware Of Neighbors and the Sun Will be the one aware of Death And that itself alone
A feather from the Whippoorwill That everlasting—sings! Whose galleries—are Sunrise— Whose Opera—the Springs— Whose Emerald Nest the Ages spin
A Coffin—is a small Domain, Yet able to contain A Citizen of Paradise In it diminished Plane. A Grave—is a restricted Breadth—
LX The grass so little has to do,— A sphere of simple green, With only butterflies to brood, And bees to entertain,
212 Least Rivers—docile to some sea. My Caspian—thee.
115 What Inn is this Where for the night Peculiar Traveller comes? Who is the Landlord?
445 ’Twas just this time, last year,… I know I heard the Corn, When I was carried by the Farms— It had the Tassels on—
Luck is not chance It’s Toil Fortune’s expensive smile Is earned The Father of the Mine
235 The Court is far away— No Umpire—have I— My Sovereign is offended— To gain his grace—I’d die!
401 What Soft—Cherubic Creatures— These Gentlewomen are— One would as soon assault a Plush… Or violate a Star—
521 Endow the Living—with the Tears— You squander on the Dead, And They were Men and Women—now, Around Your Fireside—