#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
306 The Soul’s Superior instants Occur to Her—alone— When friend—and Earth’s occasion Have infinite withdrawn—
448 This was a Poet—It is That Distills amazing sense From ordinary Meanings— And Attar so immense
257 Delight is as the flight— Or in the Ratio of it, As the Schools would say— The Rainbow’s way—
929 How far is it to Heaven? As far as Death this way— Of River or of Ridge beyond Was no discovery.
239 “Heaven”—is what I cannot reach! The Apple on the Tree— Provided it do hopeless—hang— That—"He aven" is—to Me!
My life closed twice before its cl… It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me So huge, so hopeless to conceive
How fits his Umber Coat The Tailor of the Nut? Combined without a seam Like Raiment of a Dream - Who spun the Auburn Cloth?
121 As Watchers hang upon the East, As Beggars revel at a feast By savory Fancy spread— As brooks in deserts babble sweet
The Devil—had he fidelity Would be the best friend— Because he has ability— But Devils cannot mend— Perfidy is the virtue
695 As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea— And that—a further—and the Three But a presumption be—
LXXIX I YEARS had been from home, And now, before the door, I dared not open, lest a face I never saw before
981 As Sleigh Bells seem in summer Or Bees, at Christmas show— So fairy—so fictitious The individuals do
XXXVII For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
28 So has a Daisy vanished From the fields today— So tiptoed many a slipper To Paradise away—
848 Just as He spoke it from his Hand… This Edifice remain— A Turret more, a Turret less Dishonor his Design—