#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
775 If Blame be my side’—forfeit Me’— But doom me not to forfeit Thee’— To forfeit Thee? The very name Is sentence from Belief’—and Hous…
722 Sweet Mountains—Ye tell me no lie… Never deny Me—Never fly— Those same unvarying Eyes Turn on Me—when I fail—or feign,
143 For every Bird a Nest— Wherefore in timid quest Some little Wren goes seeking rou… Wherefore when boughs are free—
10 My wheel is in the dark! I cannot see a spoke Yet know its dripping feet Go round and round.
938 Fairer through Fading—as the Day Into the Darkness dips away— Half Her Complexion of the Sun— Hindering—Haunting—Perishing—
I have no life but this, To lead it here; Nor any death, but lest Dispelled from there; Nor tie to earths to come,
LVIII PORTRAITS are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.
440 ’Tis customary as we part A trinket—to confer— It helps to stimulate the faith When Lovers be afar—
1068 Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass.
‘Faith’ is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see’— But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.
849 The good Will of a Flower The Man who would possess Must first present Certificate
784 Bereaved of all, I went abroad— No less bereaved was I Upon a New Peninsula— The Grave preceded me—
15 The Guest is gold and crimson— An Opal guest and gray— Of Ermine is his doublet— His Capuchin gay—
348 I dreaded that first Robin, so, But He is mastered, now, I’m accustomed to Him grown, He hurts a little, though—
305 The difference between Despair And Fear—is like the One Between the instant of a Wreck And when the Wreck has been—
